PASARAN

Armenia, 2019, 47’
Directors and Writers: Karine Aroyan, Nare Navasardyan
Cinematographers: Karine Aroyan, Varuzhan Galtakyan, Nare Navasardyan
Producers: Nare Navasardyan, Karine Aroyan
Editor: Varuzhan Galtakyan
Sound: Varuzhan Galtakyan, Levon Hakhverdyan
Production Company: “Hartak” Workshop Festival NGO

Pasaran follows the story of randomly chosen young people Zhor, Artak, and Sasha looking for purpose and street signs amidst the Armenian post-revolution afterparty.

New Armenia says, “Just do it, make it happen” — so simple and so hard, so doable and so impossible at the same time. Having crossed to the other side of the barricades, at the end of the parade, suddenly we find out that all we know is how to complain and protest. We are lost and excited, ready for something that has not manifested yet.

Our heroes put the old weapons aside, but the new tools are yet to be invented. Some downshift, reflect on the war they won, and prepare for the new one. Others wait under the rocks and slowly change the old skin or grow a new tale. Some, new and optimistic, believe in success and just do their share of work.

All of them still have to find their voice in the midst of the chaotic transformation. Pasaran is about the protesters’ transition to the other side of the barricades, about transitions of all kind.

KARINE AROYAN/ NARE NAVASARDYAN

Karine Aroyan and Nare Navasardyan are Armenian filmmakers. Nare is a scriptwriter, editor, and journalist, while Karine is the co-founder of Hartak NGO. Having worked in the documentary production field for 2 years at the Media Initiatives Centre, she was the coordinator of the ReAnimania International Animation Film & Comics Art Festival of Yerevan for 4 years, and afterward managed a series of cultural projects at Deem Communications marketing agency.
 
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Pasaran (2019).