Based on the Armenian ‘Sharakan’, a nine-part song that brings us gradually closer to meaning, Maria Saakyan’s new film further develops the poetic invention apparent in her first feature, The Lighthouse. Focusing on the world of a 14-year-old girl, Evridika, who is experiencing the first extremes of adolescent emotion, it makes effective and imaginative use of her private world centred on internet chat rooms and mobile phone recordings.
Vilen Apresyan, the deputy head of the Armenian central bank, will be fired if a representative of an international credit organization, who is about to arrive in two days' time, doesn't sign an agreement to provide a 50 million euro loan. The situation looks hopeless, and Vilen can only be saved by a miracle...
Arina is the daughter of a Russian mother and Kurdish father, who left the family and went back to his homeland — Syria. Turning 19, Arina goes to see him in the middle of war-time. She tries to reconnect with him while he is surrounded by three other kids and a new Kurdish wife. Meanwhile, they decide to flee to Europe. The Netherlands becomes their new home. But after a while the family splits up. Arina is trying to be near and offer her support. Will she be able to help, when everything collapses?
A dramatic worldly and spiritual journey of a Buddhist monk from Russia who became one of the first scholars and preachers of Tibetan Buddhism in the USA. In 1923 he left his home and spent over 30 years in Tibet and India. He was a friend of the Dalai Lama and taught at Columbia University. He devoted his life to putting the teachings of Buddha into practice and raising interest in Buddhism in the Western world to a new level.
