Armenian Film Society London launches open call for Western Armenian cinema

LONDON — Armenian Film Society London has launched an international open call for films in or about Western Armenian to premiere at the prestigious Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) as part of the Armenian Film Festival London. The initiative is set to become a permanent strand of the festival, celebrating Armenian as a creative language through the art of cinema.

Tatevik Ayvazyan, co-director of the festival, said: “Western Armenian is a language of poets and storytellers, songs and jokes, memories and dreams — spoken, used, loved and cherished across the world. Giving it a permanent home at our festival, in a wonderful location like the ICA London, attended by thousands of people, will elevate the language even further. It also gives filmmakers working in and with Western Armenian a stage of their own, and the recognition their work deserves.”