“Mayak” Screening

On the edge of war, amid destruction, a woman tries to return to her home and her past: Mayak, in theaters with an Othon presentation.

“When I was a little girl, I dreamed that I was a tree. It was frightening because I couldn’t move. Then I realized I wasn’t supposed to move because I carried an entire world inside me: earth, water, sunlight, bubbles of air. I was immense, swollen like a pregnant woman. I was a pear tree.”

Gone too soon, Mariya Saakyan left behind a film that will forever hold a special place in the history of cinema. Mayak offers the portrait of a generation lost to war, of a world disappearing in the mists suspended between memories and dreams. Moving along the fine line between reality and imagination, it is not a film about return, but about farewell.

Fog, mountains, children’s voices, a distant report on the radio—all resonate like echoes of a vanished life.