14 June 2024
We are delighted to share that the feature documentary film Tezeta, directed by Aramazt Kalayjian and Garegin Khachatryan, has won the Audience Choice Award at the 18th edition of the Addis International Film Festival.
The National Cinema Center of Armenia congratulates the film's creative team and extends our best wishes for their continued success.
N.B. The film was created with the state financial support of the RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport and the National Cinema Center of Armenia.
This is a story about music, which has served as a strong bridge between two cultures for many years. Gevorg Nalbandian (1930-1974) composed the first national anthem of Ethiopia. He came to Ethiopia with forty Armenian orphans who had survived the Genocide, at the invitation of Emperor Haile Selassie. Gevorg later founded the Imperial Brass Band. His nephew, Nerses Nalbandian, developed modern Ethiopian jazz music based on the melodies performed by the Imperial Brass Band.
