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THE SHEPHERD'S SONG

POLISH TITLE: PIEŚŃ PASTERZA

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Somewhere in the high mountains of Armenia, there lives a blind shepherd Khachik. In spite of all the adversities, he has set up a family and leads a quiet life, single-handedly herding his goats on the steep slopes. However, when it turns out that his only son is losing his sight too and has to move to Yerevan to attend a school for the blind, Khachik faces a dilemma: should he keep on living the life of a humble shepherd, or should he move to the capital city too to be with his son? This is a difficult choice for him as he strongly believes that blindness is a curse hanging over his family, and that the only living a devout life in the mountains can lift it.

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GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland, Armenia
RUNNING TIME:
30'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Vahram Mkhitaryan
SCRIPT:
Vahram Mkhitaryan
DOP:
Vahram Mkhitaryan
EDITOR:
Daniel Gąsiorowski
MUSIC:
Arsen Babajanyan
PRODUCTION:
Wajda Studio

Vahram Mkhitaryan »

was born in 1977 in Armenia. He is director and photographer. In 2001, Vahram Mkhitaryan graduated from Armenian State Pedagogical University, Culture Faculty, Department of Feature Films Directing (Dmitry Kesayants’ studio). After that he was engaged in production of Public Service Announsments as director, cinematographer and scriptwriter. In 2005 he came to Poland as a scholar of The Lane Kirkland Program of Polish-American Freedom Foundation and Polish-American Fulbright Commission. He worked as assistant at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. In 2009 and 2011 received scholarship of Polish Ministry of Culture “Gaude Polonia”. He graduated from Wajda School’s programmes -  “Development Lab” for feature films and “DokPro” for documentary films. In 2014 he finished his first independent documentary film “Shepherd`s Song” and short debut film “Milky Brother”. Both films are first Polish-Armenian co-productions.
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