Armat

Filmstill Armat

Armat

Armat
Élodie Dermange
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Switzerland
2022
11 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English

A young Swiss woman searches for her Armenian roots. Various lovingly animated drawers of the simultaneously accumulating family archive open. This very personal examination of collective traumas of post-migrant communities finds images and words for racism and the difficulties of talking about feelings with male family members. Its leitmotif is a wardrobe roaming through night-blue landscapes which – despite the cracks – holds everything and everyone together.

Samuel Döring

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Director
Élodie Dermange
Cinematographer
Élodie Dermange
Editor
Aurélie Sprenger
Producer
Nicolas Burlet
Sound
Jérôme Vittoz
Score
Sam Shalabi
Animation
Élodie Dermange, Sofia El Rhyari, Yaeka Tabara
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award