The title of Christine Haroutounian's first feature, After Dreaming, suggests a waking state, but the whole film hangs in a region where the divide between facts and hallucinations is never entirely clear. A follow-up to her 2020 short World--a cantankerous, Armenian-set study of end-of-life caretaking centered on a young woman and her dying mother--Dreaming sees the Los Angeles-born filmmaker return to her ancestral turf for a surreal road trip across a country still haunted by ongoing clashes ...
"Genocide Brain": Christine Haroutounian on Berlinale 2025 Premiere After Dreaming
Filmmaker Magazine - 18 Feb 2025 23:15
The title of Christine Haroutounian's first feature, After Dreaming, suggests a waking state, but the whole film hangs in a region where the divide between facts and hallucinations is never entirely clear. A follow-up to her 2020 short World--a cantankerous, Armenian-set study of end-of-life caretaking centered on a young woman and her dying mother--Dreaming sees the Los Angeles-born filmmaker return to her ancestral turf for a surreal road trip across a country still haunted by ongoing clashes ...
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