Tevanik (2014)
★★½ — Tevanik (2014)
Tevanik is the debut feature from Armenian director Jivan Avetisyan, produced through the small Artbox company in co-operation with Lithuania's Fish Eye Art Cultural Foundation, a modest arthouse pairing that kept the film well outside mainstream distribution. The film takes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict of the early 1990s as its backdrop, a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed enclave that claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced hundreds of thousands more. Structured as a triptych of loosely connected stories, each centred on a different character caught up in the violence, it sits within a broader tradition of Armenian cinema that has long grappled with collective trauma and displacement, though Avetisyan brings a noticeably lyrical, unhurried quality to the material.
A-Z World Movie Tour Armenia I've gotta say I was massively impressed with this. The film is beautifully made with a really high quality camera. The setting is the first Nagorno-Karabagh war and it shows a very realistic small village response to it. I think some background knowledge on the conflict will probably help you here as they kind of expect you to know what's going on (thankfully I did). The film is split into 3 sections which loosely intertwine and are from 3 perspectives. The first one honestly I was a little confused about as I literally can't accommodate how a parent would do that to their child. The 2nd and 3rd sections are absolutely fantastic though. Overall this was a really well made movie and I'd highly recommend it.
Rating: ★★½ | Year: 2014 | Watched: 2025-05-24
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