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Three Armenian films are submitted for nomination in the Foreign Film category of the 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television in 2016. As the official website of the Awards reports, Jivan Avetisyan’s “The Last Inhabitant”, Sarik Andreasyan’s “Earthquake” and Davit Safarian’s “28:94 Local Time” are among the submissions.

Five films out of all submissions will be nominated for the category with the winner to be announced on January 8, 2017.

To note, “The Last Inhabitant” is a co-production of 5 countries. Actors from Iran, Lithuania, Greece, USA, Russia and Armenia have been shot in the film. It is based on the story “Gyurjevan’s Last Inhabitant” by Tsovinar Khachatryan. The film tells the story of a man who refuses to abandon his homeland, lives by himself in a bordering village of Artsakh. The movie featuring a simple destiny of one person reflects the whole charm and tragedy of war and peace.

In an Armenian village deported in the result of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, in a hostile ring that has been shrinking day by day, Abgar lives with his mentally ill daughter. Abgar makes to serve his carpenter’s craft to secure his and his daughter’s safety. But after the Azeri plunders enter the village and after the rape attempt of Abgar’s daughter by one of those Azeris, he has no other choice but to break through enemy ring and leave the village together with his daughter.

Sarik Andreasyan’s “Earthquake” tells about the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, 1988. The story is set in Leninakan. Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors. Screenwriters are Sergey Yudakov, Aleksey Gravitskiy and Arsen Danielyan. The cast includes Konstantin Lavronenko, Mariya Mironova, Artyom Bystrov, Hrant Tokhatyan, Irina Bezrukova, Michael Poghosian, Sos Janibekyan and others.

David Safarian’s “28:94 Local Time” is about the life of Katya (Yana Drouz) and Tigran (Ashot Adamyan), a middle-aged couple of intellectuals who used to work in the theatre, and their everyday efforts to survive cold and despair of the 1990s amid the severe energy crisis and the national situation of instability following the dismantling of the USSR.

The story of the family becomes one of their community, which comes together in order to fix an old boiler room that would help them to overcome the harsh winter. Around this common goal, the two main characters introduce a series of quirky and iconic characters, with whom they share similar hopes and fears, but who all have different ways of approaching the situation. As Safarian once described the film is about unbearable living conditions in which humans struggle to save their faces.