Yeva

FOCUS: HIDING & SEEKING After the death of her husband, single mother Yeva and her young daughter arrive in a small village seeking protection from vengeful in-laws in this compelling Armenian-Iranian drama helmed by a woman director. Hoping to escape to France with her little girl, Yeva soon finds that concealing her past is not as easy as she hoped. But as her situation becomes increasingly precarious, she learns that she is not alone in her struggle to conquer grief and find personal redemption. Anchored by a powerful lead performance from Narina Grigorian, and beautifully filmed with cinematic detail of Armenia’s disputed Karabakh region, where Persian, Turkish, and Russian cultures meet and collide, Anahid Abad's debut feature paints a portrait of a border town rife with personal secrets and the aftereffects of war.