Fifth Column, The Lebanon
2010, 29min.
Producer: Mahalia Cohen, Dir./Script/Dir. of Phot./Composer/Editor: Vatche Boulghourjian, Sound: Srdjan Kurpjel, Vatche Boulghourjian, Cast: Berj Fazlian, Vartan Meguerdichian, Harry Simitian
The film chronicles desperation and mourning in the marginalized Armenian quarter of Beirut. In a panic, Hrag has stolen his father's gun and fled home. As father searches for son, both discover paths to personal freedom in a city that offers no escape.
Awards
3rd Prize, Cinéfondation (Cannes IFF, 2010)
Production Company
Rebus Film Production
1st Street no 5, Rabiya, Metn, Lebanon
Tel.: (961 3 403 418)
Email: info@rebus-i.com
www.rebus-i-com
| Boulghourjian, Vatche  Vatche Boulghourjian (born 1975, Kuwait)
Filmmaker and video artist based in Beirut and New York. Much of his work focuses on questions of identity and political and social narratives of the Middle East. He has directed, shot, and edited several documentaries, short and experimental films. At the Graduate Film Program of the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts his thesis film, The Fifth Column, was awarded a production grant from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and premiered at the Cinéfondation program of the Cannes IFF 2010 where it was awarded third prize.
Filmography
Noble Sacrifice (2002), Night, She Said (2005), Ali Al-Iraqi (2008), Canto (2008), Life by the Horns (2009), Hinkerort Zorasune/The Fifth Column (2010)
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