Country Focus
Lost in Armenia / Celui qu'on attendait
Screening Schedule
Screening 1
- 18th December
- 6.30 pm
- audi 4
Screening 2
- 19th December
- 8.45 pm
- audi 6
Serge Avédikian
Director's bio
Serge Avédikian
Serge Avedikian, born on December 1, 1955, in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, is an Armenian-French film and theatre actor, director, writer, and producer. His parents, born in France, were children of survivors of the Armenian genocide. Avedikian moved to France at the age of fifteen and pursued his studies at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Meudon. He has had a prolific career in theatre, film, and television, founding his own production company in 1988. Avedikian is known for his roles in films such as "Paradzhanov" (2013) and "Lost in Armenia" (2016), and he won the Cannes Festival prize for his works.
Synopsis
Jean-Paul Bolzec went to perform his show for a French company located in Azerbaijan. After the performance, on the way back to the airport, the taxi breaks down. Bolzec is abandonned on a desert road, in the middle of nowhere. Without realizing it, he crosses the border into Armenia. A latent war has existed for years between the two countries. A clandestine person in a country he doesn't know, whose language he doesn't speak, and whose alphabet he doesn't understand, Bolzec quickly understands that he has been mistaken for someone else, because people celebrate his arrival like the Second Coming.
Details of Cast
Patrick Chesnais as Bolzec Arsinée Khanjian as Tzarkanoush Robert Harutyunyan as Arsham Nikolay Avétisyan as Shirak Stephan Ghambaryan as Koryun
Details of Crew
Music: Gérard Torikian Cinematography: Boubkar Benzabat Editing: Alexandra Strauss
Producer Details
Philippe Delarue, Frédéric Jouve, Frédéric Niedermayer
Writer Details
Serge Avedikian, Jean-François Dérec, Laurent Firode
Stills
Films in this category
2022
Amerikatsi
2020
Should the Wind Drop
2006
The Lighthouse
1996
Labyrinth
2013
Parajanov Scandal
2022
Gate to Heaven
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- International Competition (14)
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- Malayalam Cinema Today (12)
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- Jury Films (5)
- Opening Film (1)
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- Midnight Cinema (3)
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- Viva el Cine: Latin American Films (5)
- Refracted Realities : The Existential Mindscapes of Hong Sang-soo (4)
- Chiaroscuro : Retrospective of Madhu Ambat (4)
- Celebrating Shabana Azmi (5)
- Centennial Tribute (3)
