SINGING IN EXILE

dokumntary film, 72’, directed by Nathalie Rosetti i Turi Finocchiaro, Belgium/France/Poland 2015

In order to pass on their ancestral endangered heritage, Aram and Virginia Kerovpyan, an Armenian couple from the diaspora, with Jarosław Fret and an international troupe of actors from Wrocław-based Teatr ZAR, travel on a journey to the places where this art was born, to Anatolia. On the way, their questions revive the wealth of a wiped-out culture, and singing becomes a language of creation and sharing, a breath of life.

What thrills us about documentaries is meeting ordinary people with extraordinary stories. When their stories challenge our beliefs, break down barriers, prejudices and clichés, and allow us to see things differently, it becomes absolutely necessary for us to make a film about it. We want as many people as possible to share our access to stories and our amazement for them... Stories that involve individuals who are reborn particularly impact us.

Nathalie Rossetti and Turi Finocchiaro


Directed by Nathalie Rossetti and Turi Finocchiaro; co-produced by Borak Films, CBA (Belgium), Les Productions du Lagon, PACA, Procirep and Angoa (France), touchFILMS, Teatr ZAR, the Grotowski Institute, Polish Film Institute, Odra Films (Poland); associate-produced by Andon Akayyan, Béatrice and Louise Mast; with the support of Anadolu Kültür and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; 72 mins.

Nathalie Rossetti is a director. After studying at DAMS, University of Bologna, and Orazio Costa theatre school in Florence, she worked as a writer, documentary maker, music assistant for films and assistant director in Italy and Belgium. Apart from writing screenplays for shorts, she has co-authored four fiction films, including Le Main Rouge, directed by Yvan Le Moin, awarded with Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes festival in 1998. She also directed the documentary Oltre il ring [Beyond the ring] (2005), awarded with Honourable Mention at the FICTS Festival in Milano. Since 2000, with her husband Turi Finocchiaro, she has been directing and producing documentaries.

Turi Finocchiaro is a producer and co-director. After studying film in France and Belgium, he got into audiovisual production with an initial foray into feature films (Italy), followed by documentaries (Belgium). From 1993 he worked for a number of production companies in the field of project development and financing applications for European programmes (Media+, Eurimages). This led him to found E.F.C. in Rome in 1996, a company devoted exclusively to project development. In 1998, also in Rome, he went on to create Impronte Digitali, an independent production company specializing in short films and creative documentaries. Finocchiaro returned to Belgium in 2004, where he directed several films with Nathalie Rossetti and together, along with Amel Bouzid, they founded Borak Films in 2009.
Together they have created, among others, the documentary Yiddish Soul (2006) and the musical Yiddish Soul Concert (2006), shown in many festivals around the world. Their film Against Blood Justice (2008) was awarded at the Astra Film Festival (Romania, 2009), “One World” Human Rights International Documentary Film Festival (Kosovo, 2009) and International Human Rights Film Festival FIFDH (France, 2010). In 2007 in Italy they created an international documentary film festival, Faito Doc Festival, which is organized every summer.

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