77′, 63′ and 52′, directed by Nathalie Rossetti and Turi Finocchiaro.
Co-produced by Les Productions du Lagon (France), Borak Films (Belgium) and Touch Films (Poland).
Supported by the PACA Region, PROCIREP and ANGOA.
Associated producers: Anadolu Kültür, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Andon Akayyan, Louise and Béatrice Mast, André Gumuchdjian, Ulule crowdfunding campaign.
Co-producers: Odra-Film, the Grotowski Institute, CBA – Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles.
Co-financed by the Polish Film Institute and the Lower Silesian Film Fund.
Selected by EURODOC and the Dragon Forum in Krakow.
Broadcast: RTS, TVP Kultura, iTVN and Vosges Télévision.
Preview: Bozar (Brussels). Theatrical release: Cinéma Aventure (Brussels); Cinéma Saint-André des Arts (Paris), selection Les Découvertes du St André.
Screenings : Villa Méditerranée & Alcazar (Marseille). Other screenings: Wrocław, Berlin, Rome, Naples, Lisbon, Venice, Amman…
DVD edition supported by the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.
Selected at the Festival Visions du Réel de Nyon, Grand Angle section (Switzerland), Coup de Cœur de l’Académie Charles Cros (France), at the CINEMED Festival (France), at the Festival Planète Honnête (France), at the Festival International Signes de Nuit (France), at the PRIMED (France), at the Festival du documentaire de Saint-Martin de Valamas (France), at the Moscow International Film Festival (Russia), at the Golden Apricot, Yerevan International Film Festival (Armenia), at Faito Doc Festival (Italy), at the Krakow Film Festival (Poland), at the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (Canada), Best Artistic Documentary at the NURT Festival (Poland), at the Karama Human Rights Film Festival (Jordan), at the East Silver Market in Jihlava (Czech Republic), at the Tripoli Film Festival (Lebanon), at the Addis Ababa Festival (Ethiopia), at the Musiq’3 Festival in Brussels (Belgium), at the BAFF – Beirut Art Film Festival (Lebanon), at the FAREL Prize – Festival int. Festival (Switzerland), Ecrans de Babel of the Babel Med Music Festival (France), CineFest Los Angeles (online), Scope Festival (online) and the Swedish International Film Festival (online).
In order to transmit a tradition of liturgical, monodic and modal singing, a heritage threatened with extinction that dates back to the 5th century, a couple of Armenians from the diaspora, Aram and Virginia Kerovpyan, take young European actors and their director Jaroslaw Fret from the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw on an initiatory journey to the places where this art still exists.
Along the way, the richness of a destroyed culture comes to the surface: singing becomes a language of creation and sharing, a breath of life.
Website : http://www.choeurs-en-exil.com/
