The Transcaucasian Tales

Garush Melkonyan

Synopsis

The Transcaucasian Tales is a speculative fiction inspired by the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (1918), the only period in modern history when Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia were united—albeit for just five weeks.The Transcaucasian Tales immerses us in a space where people belonging to sexual and gender minorities can exist without discrimination as a chosen community in the South Caucasus, outside the capitalist framework.

Credits

Genre
Experimental short film
Length
15 minutes
Status
In production
Language
Armenian
Director
Garush Melkonyan
Author
Garush Melkonyan
Image
Victor Zébo
Line producer
Sona Margaryan (Armenia)
Partenaires
The Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), the Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellowship