1489
Soghomon Vardanyan, a 21-year-old student and musician, had almost finished his mandatory military service when the Nagorno-Karabakh war started, in 2020. On the seventh day of the war, Soghomon goes missing. Using her phone camera, his sister Shoghakat decides to document her and her parents’ search. The film was awarded Best Film and FIPRESCI Prize at the latest IDFA.
Shoghakat Vardanyan was born in 1993 in Yerevan, Armenia. Vardanyan is a professional musician, graduating in 2014 from the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan with a Bachelor’s in Piano. Since 2017, she has been playing free improvisations and has become a part of the Contemporary Sound Orchestra of Yerevan. She participated in the EurasiaDoc Armenia workshop, as well as the DocTrain Armenia Workshop, where she was mentored by the Russian filmmaker and producer Marina Razbezhkina. 1489 (2023) is her first film.
