Vancouver’s Cinematheque to present Moving Mountains: The Centenary of Armenian Cinema project

YEREVAN, MAY 18, ARMENPRESS. Vancouver’s Cinemathequewill hold Armenian cinema days on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Armenian film industry.

The program is called Moving Mountains: The Centenary of Armenian Cinema and will run on June 15–22, 2023, comprising eight feature-length films and two shorts.

It is the “the first Canadian retrospective survey of Armenian cinema’s volatile trajectory from the ideologically oriented silent period to the post-Soviet era of creative diversity and experimentation,” organizers said in a statement. “Featuring works by major figureheads such as Hamo Beknazaryan, Sergei Parajanov, Frunze Dovlatyan, and Henrik Malyan, the program also indicates the dramatic shifts in local cinematic traditions, which have been radically transformed and expanded through the active participation of women and diasporan filmmakers since the early1990s.”