Shoghakat Vardanyan's '1489' to have its Yerevan premiere at Golden Apricot

After receiving IDFA’s Best Film and FIPRESCI prizes last November, winning the Best Documentary Award at Trieste IFF and traveling across the world and being honored at many other festivals, Shoghakat Vardanyan’s "1489", one of the most internationally acclaimed Armenian films since the country’s independence, will finally have its Yerevan premiere at Golden Apricot International Film Festival 2024, organizers report.

The author documents the search for her brother Soghomon, who went missing in action on the seventh day of the 44-day war in Artsakh in 2020.

The IDFA jury described the film as “a piercing light that makes visible the vast hidden interior landscape of grief and creates a tangible presence from unbearable absence”.