Section: Spectrum

Bari Luys

Good Morning

Anna Arevshatyan
Armenia, 2016, 107 Min

Our lives are shaped by memories: an Armenian journalist gradually finds the conditions in his native country unbearable and thus resolves to emigrate, together with his wife and child, to Canada. Then childhood memories of the collapse of the Soviet Union, events which coincided with the armed conflict over Nagorno Karabakh, come flooding back.

Izyum Film Production

In the words of a war veteran "this country became home for fat, corrupt people ready to sell themselves for millions of dollars ", a statement Arshak finds it hard to disagree with. The interview excerpt is subsequently edited out of a TV report and the resulting professional conflict sees him lose his job. Amongst these depressing surroundings his childhood memories seem to return with growing vividness: the early nineties, a time when war with Azerbaijan broke out and Armenia was hit by an energy crisis. Back in the present day Arshak again finds the electricity turned off, this time due to his inability to cover the bills. During his childhood years war and blackouts were an inescapable element of everyday life.

In her feature film debut, Anna Arevshatyan speaks of the search for identity, both individual and collective, to a backdrop of wonderful imagery. GOOD MORNING has to date received both the Award for Best Film at the Pomegranate FF in Toronto, as well as Best Armenian Film at the Golden Apricot Yerevan IFF. WMH

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Sevada Grigoryan
Kamera
Pawel Dyllus
Ton
Gevorg Shakhnazaryan
Schnitt
Tigran Baghinyan
Ausstattung
Syedrak Velikodni
Musik
Vahag Hayrapetyan, Araratone
Darsteller
Araik Darbinyan, Lida Hakobyan, Arsen Karapetyan
Produzent
Shushanik Arevshatyan
Produktion
Izyum Film Production
Kontakt
Izyum Film Production
Shushanik Arevshatyan
Str.Khanjyan 13A, State Song Theatre
0010 Yerevan
Armenia
+37.49.14.06.91 5
filmproba@gmail.com
Anna Arevshatyan

Anna Arevshatyan - born in 1985 in Yerevan, Armenia. In 2007 she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Russian-Armenian University in Yerevan. In 2010 enrolled in High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors at the VGIK in Moscow. She received several awards for her films. BARI LUYS is her feature debut.

Movies
ONE DAY OF LIFE (2009, short, doc)
THE UMBRELLA (2011, short)
METAGRAM (2012, short)
THE FLY (2013, short, anim)
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