In the past, when Serge Avedikian was invited to a theatre festival in Istanbul in 1987, he could not resist crossing the Sea of Marmara to go and seek Soloz, the town his Armenian grandfather had lived in. The day he spent in this town left him with haunted memories. Incomplete, half-stolen images remain, revealing the furtive traces of the Armenian community driven away in 1922: a torn down church and some beautiful tombstones, lying about or used for other purposes. And the dialog that had been started with the inhabitants in 1987 was interrupted, too. In 2006, early twenty years later, he returns to the village of Soloz, aiming to break the deep-seated taboo between Armenian and Turks. –São Paulo International Film Festival
Was born in Armenia in 1955. Studied at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Meudon, France, and moved to Paris in 1971. In 1976, founded a theatre company and produced several plays, always working concomitantly with theatre, cinema, especially short-films and as a TV actor. He directed the short films Misters Dames (1997), Terra Emota (1999), Lux Aeterna (1999), Line of Life (2003) and One Fine Morning (2005); the medium-length films Accomplished Mission (1992) and The Fifth Dream (1994); and the feature We Drank the Same Water (2007). His last short film, Barking Island (2010), won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. He acted in Robert Guédiguian’s Armenia and The Army of Crime. –São Paulo International Film Festival
