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Embers

Original title: Embers
Year: 2012
Running time: 77 min.
Country: Armenia
Director: Tamara Stepanyan
Screenwriter: Tamara Stepanyan
Cast: Documentary, Self: Zepyur Avazyan, Yura Hovhanissyan, Keti Khatchatryan, Ashot Haroutiounian, Klara Prelutskaya, Grigor Altunyan
Music: Narine Haroutiunian, Cynthia Zaven
Cinematography: Tamara Stepanyan
Producer: Co-production Armenia-Lebanon-Qatar;
Djinn House, Screen Institute Beirut
Genre: Documentary | Old Age / Elderly. Friendship. Family Relationships
Synopsis: With EMBERS, Tamara Stepanyan’s first feature-length documentary, the director seeks to honour the memory of her late grandmother, whom she was named after. Stepanyan visits the elder Tamara’s hometown in Armenia, where she spends time with her grandmother’s circle of friends, who discuss their memories of daily life with Tamara, bringing to light their ideological and political viewpoints in the process. As the conversations progress, a dialogue emerges between past and present – between the Tamara of today and the Tamara of two generations ago, whose life was shaped by her experiences during World War II. Despite the absence of the film’s central subject, her presence is deeply felt through her impact on those who survived her. Stepanyan’s mourning the loss of someone close to her heart is acutely apparent; here, she faces down that sorrow with a bright tribute to a wonderful woman.

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Embers

2012

Tamara Stepanyan