On the day of her daughter's funeral, a grieving Armenian-American mother defies a centuries-old ritual and tests the limits of tradition as she walks the thin line between death and afterlife.
Acting
Anne Bedian's silent mutiny — her face says everything.
Direction
Arjoyan makes 15 minutes feel like a lifetime of suffocation.
Production
Authentic Armenian-American funeral, painfully specific details.
Director
Robert Nazar Arjoyan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The kirtag (forty-day mourning ritual) historically requires female relatives to prepare the body; Elena's intervention reclaims this space from male clergy.
Arjoyan cast his actual mother Takui Akopyan as Virginia, layering real mother-daughter tension into a film about inherited silences.
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