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Le Pays d’Arto
Céline arrives in Armenia for the first time to legalize the death of Arto, her husband. She discovers that he has lied to her, that he fought in the war, usurped his identity, and that his former friends consider him a deserter.
The 23rd Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival opens with Tamara Stepanyan’s Armenian-French drama, In the Land of Arto. Céline, a French woman, arrives in Armenia for the first time to legalize the death of her husband, Arto. She soon discovers that her late husband had kept secrets about his life and his involvement in the First Artsakh War of the 1990s. Starring Camille Cottin and Zar Amir Ebrahimi, with a cameo by Denis Lavant. The film previously opened the Locarno Film Festival.