The Last Inhabitant

 
Genre: Drama/War Director/s: Jivan Avetisyan ("Tevanik ") Cast: Anne Bedian, Homayoun Ershadi Runtime: 82' Country/s: Armenia Year: 2016 Writer/s: Masis Baghdasaryan & Tsovinar Khachatryan Producer/s: Masis Baghdasaryan Language/s: Armenian, Russian IMDB: https://pro-labs.imdb.com/title/tt5497824 Festivals: Official Selection 2016, Locarno Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection 2016, Venice Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection 2016, Toronto Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection 2016, Busan Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection 2016, Rome Int'l Film Festival
 

Logline

The losers in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict lost their paradise, their loved ones and are trying to escape hell.

 

Synopsis

During the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, Abgar stays behind in a shrinking enemy ring. He is looking for his daughter Yurga who witnessed her husband’s murder and is hospitalised with a traumatic disorder. Ibrahim, a Muslim Azerbaijani, promises to free her if Abgar, a Christian, will help as a stonemason, in the construction of a mosque.

Father and daughter live quietly like among ghosts. The situation is gradually deteriorating, food runs out, the hope of seeing family recedes and enemy danger is suddenly on the rise. Abgar watches his corner of his paradise gradually turn into a hell, from where the only way out is escape.