Violets Blossom in the Caucasus

Be well, Caucasian gray!

1958

A documentary film about the expedition of Czechoslovak mountaineers led by Vladimír Procházka to Mount Elbrus in 1958.

Traces: People of the Peacock

2016

Filmmaker Binevsa Bêrîvan travels to Armenia to capture the daily life, customs, and history of the country's Yazidi Kurdish community.

Architects of Denial

2017 · ★ 6.9

Though both the historical and modern-day persecution of Armenians and other Christians is relatively uncovered in the mainstream media and not on the radar of many average Americans, it is a subject that has gotten far more attention in recent years.

UNSPOKEN

2022

An intimate insider’s journey to uncover buried truths and explore how the community in Monroe, Georgia has been impacted by the 1946 quadruple lynching and decades of racial injustice, shattering a code of silence that has distanced neighbor from neighbor for generations.

axiom

An auteur-director who wishes to make a documentary about Armenia imagines a fictitious character that has the ability to travel through bodies. The latter will alternatively embody: a young farmer that dreams to flee from the countryside to more urban spheres, a prostitute who is a survivor of rape, a narcissistic client, a fallen artist and finally, a resisting deserter.

Live, song, live!

2022

The film tells the story of ancient Ingush lullabies - Ingush women and men tell the lullabies of their families and the stories associated with them: love, friendship, blood feud.

Carriage

2016

In the capital of Ingushetia, at the memorial, there is a carriage. This is a carriage from the 40s, a carriage of memory. One of those in which the Ingush were transported back in 1944 to Kazakhstan and Central Asia. February 23 is the day when the whole country celebrates Defender of the Fatherland Day; mourning takes place in Ingushetia. And on this day, the old people gathered in this carriage to remember and tell each other how it was.

Devout

2016 · ★ 10

DEVOUT reveals an archaic utopia, a timeless spiritual sphere that is as beautiful and harsh as the mountain terrain of the Caucasus, tempting but unforgiving, a riddle like God and faith as mysterious as the human condition.

Caucasian Gates

1929

Short documentary about the Georgian Military Road. Captures Ingush and Ossetian settlements of the early 20th century

The Udi people

1993

The film is dedicated to the ethnogenesis of a small people, preserving their traditions and language, the Udi people

In the City of Ordzhonikidze

1967

Documentary film about Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz)

Labor rhythms of Checheno-Ingushetia

1972

Documentary film about the labor activity of residents of Chechen-Ingush ASSR