Feature film created by 10 famous Armenian film directors and scriptwriters. The movie consists of 10 short stories lasting about seven minutes each, "10 life stories" beaded like "pearls" on an "endless thread" called Yerevan. Each story is shot in a definite genre and differs from the rest by its concept as well as signature, yet all the stories integrate into a bright mosaic, reflecting nowadays Yerevan life.
"Free Spaces" sketches a new and transformative image of four major cities in Eastern Europe. In te post-communist urban settings of Tbilisi (Georgia), Yerevan (Armenia), Chișinău (Moldova) and Kiev (Ukraine), Ina Ivanceanu follows artists and activists as they reclaim public spaces and assert their freedom of expression. Occupying a cinema, reviving an old Soviet circus, converting a grim metro passage into a glamorous arena, and repurposing a defunct factory building into a cultural agora. By seizing and creatively transforming public spaces characterized by an abondoned past, today's new generation explores democratic means and freedom while also confronting pervasive neoliberal structures in their respective societies.
Filmmaker Binevsa Bêrîvan travels to Armenia to capture the daily life, customs, and history of the country's Yazidi Kurdish community.
