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"I can see you better than you." Variance has revealed the trailer for an Armenian film titled Amerikatsi, made by filmmaker Michael A. Goorjian. This premiered at last year's Woodstock Film Festival, and it also played at the Hamburg, Glasgow, Fargo, and RiverRun Fests recently. The comedy-drama film was shot in Armenia by People of Ar Productions. Amerikatsi is about hope and the art of survival in the worse of conditions. Armenian-American repatriate, Charlie Bakhchinyan, is arrested for the absurd crime of wearing a tie in Soviet Armenia. Alone in solitary confinement, he soon discovers that he can see into an apartment building near the prison from his cell window. By always watching the native Armenian couple living in the apartment, day in and day out, Charlie soon discovers everything he came back to Armenia for. The film stars Goorjian as Charlie, also with Hovik Keuchkerian, Nelli Uvarova, Mikhail Trukin,...

Yeva is the story of women in a traditional small Armenian village, after the war. Yeva is a young woman who has escaped from her influential in-laws with her daughter Nareh, after her husband’s tragic death. She takes refuge in one of the villages of Karabakh, Armenia as a complete stranger and is obliged to live her daily life in disguise.

Yeva is not alone in leading a life with secrets. She had already been in this small village and had fallen in love as a doctor treating the victims of war. It seems so long ago, that she is sure she can go there and not be recognized. She gets a job as a teacher. While there, she meets another woman wanting and needing to flee her own wartime tragedy, and seeking an abortion. As the past catches up with Yeva, the present colludes to find a solution to both their problems.