Cinema
Black and White
Սև-սպիտակ
Tigran Khzmalyan · 1996
Synopsis
At the end of the world, in a mountain village, seven women wait for their husbands to come back from the war. The wait drags on, cold and hunger take hold of the houses, and the children are the first to be threatened. When the war ends, the long-awaited return does not resemble the one they expected, and the village demands a price to be reborn.
Context
The film was shot in 1996, three years after the years in which its author had covered the Nagorno-Karabakh war as a war correspondent for the Armenian and foreign press. It is a short fiction, twenty-eight minutes long, between his debut of 1991 and the documentaries he made afterwards, and it circulated at festivals in Turkey, Germany and Russia, after his first film, La Leçon, had received a special prize at the first Armenian film festival in 1993.
Who it is for
A short film in Armenian, with limited distribution. A hard half-hour, about waiting and deprivation.
Prizes and reception
The most awarded film of its director: grand prize at Antalya in 1996, a prize at Regensburg in 1997 and at the Kinoshock festival in 1998.