Those from the Shore

Stuck in a refugee asylum on the shores of Marseille, families from Armenia wait to be given a new lease on life in France, while ruminating on the idealized past they’ve left behind. Tamara Stepanyan’s poetic documentary turns this narrative of uprooted people caught in a limbo of bureaucratic and political uncertainty into a delicate tapestry of the 21st century immigrant experience.

84 min, 2017, Armenia/France/Lebanon/Qatar
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As part of 100 + 10 – Armenian Allegories


Photos: Tamara Stepanyan