February Berlinale: We Attend Movie After Dreaming

Its Berlinale Protected content 13.02. Protected content .

About the movie:

In an Armenia after war, yet before peace, an itinerant well-digger is mistaken for an enemy and killed by villagers. Wanting to withhold the news from their daughter Claudette, the victim’s family requests a haggard soldier named Atom to take Claudette away on a road trip until the funeral is over. On the road, as Atom and Claudette find themselves increasingly drawn to each other’s mysteries, their journey turns into an intimate drift through the scarred spaces of a war-torn country. Rather than follow a linear plot, Christine Haroutounian’s hypnotic, highly stylized debut feature unfolds like snatches from a fever dream, through spellbinding vignettes steeped in the mythologies of war, nation, family and religion. The strikingly original handheld cinematography makes creative use of fuzzy focus, driving the imagery to the edge of abstraction, while repetitions in speech, gesture and action are mobilized into a ritualistic, musical rhythm – most bracingly in an elaborate wedding scene that works up an incantatory, trance-like atmosphere.

by Christine Haroutounian (Director, Screenplay)with Veronika Poghosyan, Davit Beybutyan105'Armenia, USA, Mexico Protected content Armenian Subtitles: English

How to get a ticket?
Buy your ticket at 11. Protected content -note you have then only 1min, sale starts an at 10 AM.. Check your Eventim Account Login beforehand, you will need