The film shows the unique world of artist Sergei Parajanov, whose brilliant images in films and collages aroused the suspicion of Soviet authorities.

关于 Serge Avédikian 的回忆。

关于 Serge Avédikian 的回忆。

I am Sergei Parajanov! shot a few months after Parajanov's death. Features archive photographs, his collages, the clips from Sayat-Nova (1968), Ashik Kerib (1988), the making of The Legend of the Surami Fortress (1984) and a few views of the house he lived.

The author of the film decides to leave the country where she lives, in connection with the outbreak of the dramatic events, and return home to Armenia in search of a worthy example and solutions on how to live on. Paradjanov’s house becomes a place of inspiration and a point of no return to toxic reality. Through the life and work of Paradjanov, clarifying and interpreting the theme of human freedom in non-free conditions, where freedom is limited both by the borders of the totalitarian state and by the barbed wire of the camp fence.

Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Mikhail Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Sergei Parajanov who was imprisoned by KGB "at the peak of his artistic power". Vartanov takes us back with the scenes from his censored 1969 film The Color of Armenian Land where Paradjanov is at work on his suppressed chef-d'oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - and contrasts it with the shocking request Parajanov sent him in unpublished 1974 letters from the Soviet prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's striking last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession - the original camera negative of which survives in Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) - as Parajanov comments on this cherished autobiographical work. A monumental wordless montage - the entire sixth reel - concludes Vartanov's acclaimed documentary, his final film, and his most important work, which, despite the prohibitive conditions it was created in, won the admiration of cinema's greatest artists.

The 81-minute documentary “Parajanov - A Ticket To Eternity”, looks at the life and work of Soviet-era film director Sergei Parajanov, a seminal figure in world cinema. Parajanov was active in Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia, and was persecuted by the communist government on the pretext of his homosexuality. Parajanov was convicted on largely fabricated charges, spent years in Soviet labor camps, and was not allowed to work freely. The director of this documentary, Harry Tamrazian of Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, is currently finishing post production on an English version aimed at global broadcast networks and video-on-demand.

A webcam dialogue between Berlin and Isfahan: Faraz Fesharaki documents conversations with his family over 10 years. This debut film blends recordings, text and VHS memories into a warm, melancholy intergenerational portrait. Intimacy is also work.

孟小军的全家遭遇了一场惨烈的车祸，他们骑的摩托车被卡车撞翻，孟小军受了重伤，年仅4岁的女儿严重脑损伤，而妻子则当场死亡。女儿必须在一周之内做一台昂贵的手术才能保住性命，手术的花费要十二万，作为小县城的修车工，孟小军根本无法在一周之内凑到钱。所以，走投无路的他听从了太平间管理员老张的建议：打算将妻子的遗体卖到农村，与一个刚刚死去的年轻人结成阴婚。 All the families of Xiaojun Meng suffered a serious car accident. A truck rammed his motorcycle and Xiaojun Meng was hurt badly and her four-year-old daughter was suffered a fearful brain damage, but her wife was dead, unfortunately. In order to save her daughter, she must be conducted an expensive operation within a week, which costs ￥120,000. Since Meng is a car mechanic in a small town, there is no doubt that Meng cannot pay the operation fee. At last, he followed the mortuary administrator, Lao Zhang’s advice, that is, he would sell his wife’s remains to rural and got her Yin married with a dead young man.