AFTER DREAMING is my first feature film. Set in my motherland, Armenia, the contrasts are extreme. But that’s life in the plains of Mount Ararat, the biblical landing place of Noah’s Ark. My family originates somewhere nearby, under the awe-inspiring spectacle of this alien mountain, where it all started. The immensity and chaos of existence. The beauty and darkness, from which everything emerges.
Abject, sublime, primal – and then, a girl and a soldier floating in the tide of destiny, an immeasurable ocean, in a country that is landlocked, forsaken, shining. Where did we come from? Where are we going? Who are we? We wait our whole lives for the mist to clear, but deep down it feels good to vanish.
Christine Haroutounian
