“If the wind falls” by Nora Martirosyan selected at the Festival of (…)

The festival being canceled, Cannes has unveiled its 2020 selection of films which will be broadcast directly in cinemas … And the documentary “ If the wind falls By Nora Martirosyan has been selected !

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No red carpet, no palm of gold or other prizes … This year, the Cannes film festival is limited to a selection of fifty-six films, out of the 2,067 received. They should have been presented on the Croisette. Over the months, they will be released in French cinemas and a few festivals such as Toronto, Deauville and Angoulême. And among those who will benefit from this label “ Cannes 2020 “, We find the documentary If the wind falls by Nora Martirosyan, his first feature film.

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The story focuses on the fate of Alain (played by Grégoire Colin), a French international auditor, who comes to assess the airport of a self-proclaimed Caucasian Republic in order to give the green light to its reopening. Edgar, a local boy, wanders around the airport and has a strange business. Man and child end up meeting …

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Born in 1973 in Yerevan, Nora Martirosyan lives and works in Montpellier. After studying at the Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts, she left Armenia to pursue her artistic studies at the Gerriet Rietveld Academie, then led two residences at the Fresnoy and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. In 2003, his short film Air flow wins the Jury Prize at the Belfort Festival, now part of the Pompidou Center video collection, alongside 1937, awarded at FID in Marseille and at the Cerbère Cinematographic Meetings in 2008. His artistic production is at the crossroads of video and filmmaking. His productions often refer to Soviet Armenia from his childhood, his culture and his own stories. Far from any story articulated around a scenario fixed by language, his productions give way to sensation, carried by suave and tactile images, sounds of great complexity. Nora Martirosyan’s works were the subject of a solo exhibition in autumn 2008, Blackout, at the Fabre museum in Montpellier.

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