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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)

Awards

Golden Apricot, Yerevan Int’l Film Festival 2017, Armenian Panorama

Contacts

  • Main Contact

    Tamara Stepanyan

    Company: 
    VISAN
    Email: 
    tamarastepanyan@gmail.com

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