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"Vodka Lemon"
2003
Directed by Hiner Saleem

Kurdish filmmaker Hiner Saleem's breakout comedy is a bleakly funny and mordantly surreal snapshot of life in the frostbitten badlands of post-Soviet Armenia. An elderly man (Romen Avinian) is one of the only residents left in a snowy community that boasts beautiful vistas but no kind of economic infrastructure. When he runs across a widow (Lala Sarkissian) at the town cemetery, he wonders if she might help him to alleviate his boredom, but shyness forestall him from making a move. "Visually ravishing! A tribute to just how rapturous life can be" (Time Out New York). Armenian, Russian, and Kurdish with English subtitles.  88 minutes.