Spitak is the city of the dead. Thirty years ago there was a terrible earthquake. Tens of thousands of people died, and the survivors seemed to be frozen in that time forever. Manukyan's father and son live next to a huge cemetery, and it seems as if some unknown force is preventing them from escaping from hopelessness and poverty.
Festivals:
- Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" (2020, Russia, Vyborg)
- Visions du Réel International Film Festival (2020, Switzerland, Nyon)
- Russian Film Festival in New York, Jury Diploma "For Humanism in the Modern World" (2020, USA, New York)
- Portobello Film Festival (2020, UK, London)
- KIN International Women's Film Festival, Jury Diploma (2020, Armenia, Yerevan)
- Open Film Festival "Kinoshock" (2020, Russia, Anapa)
- International Festival of Audiovisual Anthropology "Days of Ethnographic Cinema", Diploma of the Jury, (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- International Festival of Films and TV Programs "Radonezh", Diploma "Special Mention of the Jury" (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- Moscow International Film Festival (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- Baikal International Film Festival named after V.G. Rasputin "Man and Nature" (2021, September, Russia, Irkutsk)