Those from the Shore
Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage
Tamara Stepanyan / Feature Documentary / Lebanon, Armenia, France, Qatar / 2016 / 85 min / Colour and B&W / Original Language: Armenian, French / Interests: Creative Documentary
Synopsis
Marseille, 2014. Dozens of Armenian asylum seekers try to survive while waiting for their applications to be considered. They left behind them a country whose people have settled around the world for more than a century… A country all describe as a desert, abandoned by its inhabitants, emptied of its life. Forced stillness, impotence; they live in an in-between space: between two countries, between two lives. They exist in an abstract time and space, made of nothing, where their life escapes them completely. By the shore, they float in limbo.
Credits
- Director
- Tamara Stepanyan
- Screenwriter
- Tamara Stepanyan
- Producer
- Nathalie Combe, Tamara Stepanyan, Jean-Christophe Ferrari (Co-Author)
- Production Company
- Visan (Armenia), Cosmographe Productions
About the Director
Tamara Stepanyan was born in Armenia and moved with her parents to Lebanon in 1994. After studying and working there, she moved to France, where she is currently developing her first narrative feature. Stepanyan has participated in film workshops in South Korea, at the Asian Film Academy as part of the Busan International Film Festival in 2007; and in Denmark, in an exchange programme at Den Danske Filmskole, in 2012. She has won several international awards for her films.
Awards and Festival History
Festivals
Busan International Film Festival 2016 (WP)
AwardsGolden Apricot, Yerevan Int’l Film Festival 2017, Armenian Panorama