Conversations & Dreams
Melanya Hamasyan / Short Documentary / Armenia, Czech Republic / Armenian, Russian / 19:40 / 2024
After dreaming of her father’s death, a young woman begins to inhabit the turbulent landscapes of his dreams and memories, uncovering fears that mirror her own.
Crew:
Director, Writer, Producer: Melanya Hamasyan
DoP: Harsimran Anand Kaur
Editor: Yu-Ying Chen
Production Manager: Nela Beislová
Sound Design: Tigran Hakobyan
Producer of Distribution: Jakob Ramsey
Cast:
Woman: Melanya Hamasyan
Father’s Voice: Karapet Hamasyan
Man: Savva Dolomanov
Man’s Voice: Mike Alexaniants
Father in Old age: Jan Slovák
Participation in other Festivals:
- Golden Apricot International Film Festival, Armenia [home premiere]
- Doclisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal [International Premiere]
- Lulea International Film Festival
- Stockholm City Film Festival
Director’s Bio
Melanya Hamasyan
She is a director and screenwriter from Gyumri, Armenia. She has a Master’s degree in film directing from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. Previous to pursuing cinema, she studied photography and public art at the University of California Santa Cruz, where she obtained her Bachelor’s degree. Her work spanning documentary and fiction, is often heterogeneous in style and genre, traversing the boundary that has become increasingly more intangible. Thematically, her films explore another boundary-namely how people relate and reconcile their everyday reality with that of the subconscious- engaging with the elusive yet expressive landscapes of dreams, memories and beliefs.
