Edgar Baghdasaryan’s ‘Lengthy Night’ to screen at Parana International Films Festival

Panorama, Armenia
Sep 3 2020
Culture 11:00 03/09/2020Armenia

"Lengthy Night" (Erken Kisher), a film by Armenian director Edgar Baghdasaryan, is set to screen at the Parana International Films Festival (PIFF) of Argentina scheduled for 4-8 September.

The film has been included in the Official Selection 2020 of the film festival, the National Cinema Center of Armenia reported.

The historical drama produced by Yerevan's Sharm Holding pivots around three stories set across a thousand years of Armenian history, where an unusual and attractive stone is the common thread.

Beginning in the 21st century, with a story about a couple whose relationship is under stress, the film goes back in time to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and far into the country's distant past in the early 11th century to create three self-contained stories of human strife.

Opening with the contemporary story of a couple driving aimlessly around Yerevan at night, venting their frustrations with a scene that includes the husband picking up a prostitute, while his wife sits furiously in the car, "Lengthy Night" touches upon the tragedies of Armenia's past, the memory of which continue to hold the country together as a nation to this day.

The film starring Shant Hovhannisyan, Samvel Grigoryan, Luiza Nersisyan and Babken Chobanyan, won best film honors and five other awards, including for best script, cinematography and director, at Armenia's Anahit National Awards Ceremony in 2019. 



Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS