Shoghakat Vardanyan’s ‘1489,’ About Disappearance of Director’s Brother, Wins Best Film at IDFA

Shoghakat Vardanyan’s “1489,” which follows the director’s family after her brother goes missing while serving in the Armenian army, won documentary festival IDFA’s best film prize Thursday. The jury of the International Competition section said it was film that “acts as a piercing light that makes visible the vast hidden interior landscape of grief and […]