Filmadaran Film Culture Development NGO

A disillusioned veteran finds himself at a war photo exhibition, where everybody else sees art, while he relives his past.

The film is a cinematic interpretation of the travel book “Armenia” by Russian poet Andrei Bely.

The members of the Ayrudzi troupe travel across various villages of Armenia on horseback and put on folk song and dance concerts and shadow theatre performances for the locals.

Filmed entirely from a single viewpoint during the closing ceremony of the 2023 Apricot Tree IDFF, Debet is an experimental observational documentary that forces the audience to pay attention to the smallest gestures and seemingly insignificant details of human behavior, creating a whole array of fascinating portraits.

The film is a cinematic love-letter to Reichshoffen, a small, modest town in Alsace, and its residents.