Lighthouse Blu-ray

'The Lighthouse / Mayak' Director: Maria Saakyan (2006) Second Run Blu-ray | 2K Restoration | Region Free |  Staff Pick  | Russian and Armenian w/ English subtitles | includes short by Saakyan, visual essay and 28-page booklet

A remarkable debut film. Set in the Nagorno-Karabakh in the early 90s, a young woman returns to a war-torn Armenian village hoping to persuade her grandparents to move to the safety of Moscow with her. An elegiac, poetic and visually rich film.