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Armenian director Jivan Avetisyan’s film “Gate to Heaven” will premiere at the Film House in Yerevan on November 5 at 20:00 in the realm of the program “Dedication to Artsakh”. The film will also be screened on November 6, at 18:00, Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival reports.

To remind, the world premiere of "Gate to Heaven" was planned to take place at the Moscow International Film Festival on October 1-8, however, the organizers of the Festival pulled the film from the festival’s non-competitive program. The decision was made as a precautionary measure due to the fact that it is directly related to Karabakh.

The 17th edition of the Golden Apricot Film Festival joins "We are our borders; All for Artsakh" nationwide fundraiser by the Hayastan All Armenian Fund with its program #DedicationToArtsakh.

It is noted that all proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund's "We are our borders. All for Artsakh ”nationwide fundraising campaign.

“Gate to Heaven” centers on Robert Stenvall, a European journalist, who returns to Artsakh in 2016 to cover the April Four-Day war. During his time in Artsakh, Stenvall meets Sophia Martirosyan a young Opera singer and daughter of a missing photojournalist Edgar Martirosyan whom Robert left behind in captivity in the village during the fall of Talish in 1992. The film features Tatiana Spivakova, Sos Janibekyan, and Naira Zakaryan in lead roles and its Armenian and Artsakh premiere took place in 2019.

“Gate to Heaven” is a co-production of Armenia, Lithuania. Finland, and France.