resented in a new director-approved digital transfer with restored picture and sound, Maria Saakyan’s short film Farewell (Proshchanie) and an extended booklet featuring a new interview with the director and new essays by author/poet Sophie Mayer and film historian Vigen Galstyan.

Based on the Armenian ‘Sharakan’, a nine-part song that brings us gradually closer to meaning, Maria Saakyan’s new film further develops the poetic invention apparent in her first feature, The Lighthouse. Focusing on the world of a 14-year-old girl, Evridika, who is experiencing the first extremes of adolescent emotion, it makes effective and imaginative use of her private world centred on internet chat rooms and mobile phone recordings.