Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

Armenian Perspectives

Embers

Armenia, Lebanon, Qatar
2012 — 77' / Color

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Synopsis

Stepanyan visits the elder Tamara’s hometown in Armenia, where she spends time with her grandmother’s circle of friends, who discuss their memories of daily life with Tamara, bringing to light their ideological and political viewpoints in the process. As the conversations progress, a dialogue emerges between past and present – between the Tamara of today and the Tamara of two generations ago, whose life was shaped by her experiences during World War II. Despite the absence of the film’s central subject, her presence is deeply felt through her impact on those who survive her.

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Director Biography

Tamara Stepanyan was born in Armenia. During the breakdown of the Soviet Union, she moved to Lebanon with her parents in 1994, at a time when the country was coming out of the Civil War. After studying and working in Lebanon she moved recently to France where she is writing her first feature fiction script.

Director

Tamara Stepanyan

Producer

Michele Tyan

Tamara Stepanyan

Cinematographer

Tamara Stepanyan

Tammam Hamza

Editor

Farah Fayed

Michele Tyan

Sound

Raed Younan

Contact

Tamara Stepanyan
131 Rue de la Roquette
75011 Paris, France
+33 762 702 829
[email protected]