"Taniel" Trailer from Garo Berberian on Vimeo.
TANIEL
Constantinople, April 24 1915. As the British prepared their landings in nearby Gallipoli, hundreds of arrest warrants are issued across the city. The arrival of police at poet Taniel Varoujan’s door would shatter his home, destroy his work, and his family would never see him again.
Film Noir in style, “Taniel” pays homage to the era of dramatic filmmaking with extreme lighting and camera angles. The narrative is mostly heard through poetry, with Varoujan’s poems in Armenian expressing the emotions in each of the scenes; and narrative poetry in English delivered with an emotive depth of feeling by Sean Bean.
Taniel has recently finished taking part in the film festival circuit. It won two awards at the Bermuda International Film Festival, Best Short Film award at ARPA International Film Festival and Don Quixote special mention award at Avanca Festival. The film was also selected by a number of festivals all over the world, including Sydney, Toronto, Bucharest, Washington DC, Buenos Aires etc, as well as by the Golden Apricot International Film Festival, Shetland’s Screenplay Festival, curated by Mark Kermode; and one of the oldest festivals in Europe in Montecatini. Taniel also had some very special screenings at The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan and at the iconic Lincoln Center in New York. The film also had two very emotional screenings in 2019, tracing the poet’s footsteps in Istanbul, at Hrant Dink Foundation; and at Ghent University in Belgium, Varoujan’s alma mater.
LA calling
Garo is returning to Los Angeles’ Arpa festival with Taniel, after winning the Audience Award for this previous film there
Short To the Point
Taniel is in the official selection of the Romanian STTP Film Festival
Taniel in Tuscany
Taniel is in the official selection of Montecatini International Film Festival 2018
Interview with Yegya Akgun by Paros Magazine
Read what our Western Armenian poetry narrator Yegya Akgun thinks about Varoujan and the film
Filmmaking Q&A from AFF Sydney with Garo Berberian and Levon Parian
Q&A session with Garo Berberian and The Crows of the Desert director Levon Parian
Taniel to travel to Washington
The film will be screened at DC Shorts Film Festival in September
To the source of the light: Taniel travels around the Globe
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Sydney Armenian Film Festival
Taniel to be screened in Sydney on 19 August!
Golden Apricot’s Black and White Themes
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