Armat

A young Swiss woman tries to find out more about her Armenian roots. Various lovingly animated drawers of the simultaneously accumulating family archive open. This very personal examination of collective generational traumas of post-migrant communities finds images and words for racism and the difficulties of talking about feelings with male family members. Its leitmotif is a wardrobe roaming through night-blue landscapes which – despite the cracks – holds everything and everyone together. 

This short film has been part of the programme Shorts: Growing Pains at the Movies that Matter Festival 2023.