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A Window on Asian Cinema, 2025

After Dreaming

꿈보다 아픈 밤Երազելուց հետո

Director Christine HAROUTOUNIAN

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In Armenia, where the shadows of war still cast their long reach, Claudette embarks on a road trip to a remote monastery with a soldier Atom, unaware that her father has been killed after being mistaken for the enemy. The camera blurs the boundaries of reality, poetically illuminating the languid bodies and scarred landscapes of an uneasy ′post-dream′ state. Slow handheld shots and focus that seems to blur and contract follow the unstable breathing of survivors, capturing the emptiness within the human soul. A collective wedding ceremony unfolding to traditional music for approximately 15 minutes dramatically reveals the intimacy and daily life destroyed and eroded by war, marking the film′s climactic moment. This dreamlike journey invites audiences into a drowsy, half-conscious world, imprinting upon each viewer′s dreams what the director calls the ′genocide brain′—the collective trauma and perpetual anxiety of diaspora that passes through generations.

Programme note by CHAE Kyeong Hoon

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Screenings4

Thu, 09/18

14:0015:49

LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 2

044KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Fri, 09/19

17:0018:49

LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 9

145KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Sat, 09/20

09:0011:14

CGV Centum City 2

184Guest Q&AKE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Wed, 09/24

14:0015:49

CGV Centum City 1

498KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Film details

Director: Christine HAROUTOUNIAN
Original title: Երազելուց հետո
Country/Region: Armenia, United States, Mexico
Year: 2025
Length: 109min
Section: A Window on Asian Cinema
Edition: Busan International Film Festival 2025, No. 30
Original language: Armenian
Format: DCP, Color
Selection: Official selection
Elsewhere: Festival page Letterboxd IMDb Wikidata TMDB Douban

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Christine HAROUTOUNIAN

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Director: Christine HAROUTOUNIAN
Producer: Brad BECKER-PARTON
Cast: Veronika POGHOSYAN, Davit BEYBUTYAN
Screenplay: Christine HAROUTOUNIAN
Cinematography: Evgeny RODIN
Production design: Lusine SARGSYAN
Editing: Kiss KARAMIAN
Sound: María Alejandra ROJAS, Arturo SALAZAR
Production company: Mankazar, Seaview, Splendor Omnia
World sales: alief

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