The number of 1489 refers to “body of an individual missing in action.” It is also the number assigned to numerous Armenians who are nowhere to be found after the wars with Azerbaijan. When a longstanding territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan flared up again in September 2020, a 21-year-old student and musician named Soghomon Vardanyan was thrust into battle. Seven days into the war he went missing… Using her phone camera, his sister Shoghakat decides to film her and her parents' search and their emotional process, in an effort that netted her the IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary, along with the Fipresci Award in the same festival.
1489 is screening at Museum of the Moving Image, as part of the First Look 2024 program
The intimacy of the documentary is quite evident from the initial scenes, as the film resembles a home video of a daughter recording her father's everyday life.
1489 is screening at Museum of the Moving Image, as part of the First Look 2024 program
The intimacy of the documentary is quite evident from the initial scenes, as the film resembles a home video of a daughter recording her father's everyday life.
- 3/18/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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