The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia awarded The Grand Prix of the 19th International Festival of Ethnological Films in Belgrade, Serbia. The film is produced by Bars Media, directors - Inna Sahakyan and Arman Yeritsyan. In the past, the film received The Best Feature Length Documentary and spetial award for Search of Original Scenario of Nonfiction Film at the “Russia” Documentary Film Festivalin Yekaterinburg, The Best Armenian Film at 7th Golden Apricot International Film Festival (, Special Jury Award at Gdansk International Doc Film Festival The Best Cinematography at the Saratov Sufferings. The film was also included in official screening list of such European festivals as IDFA, Goteborg International Film Festival, Euganea Film Festival (Padua, Italy 2010) and others. This Friday Oct. 22, the film will be screened in the DOK Leipzig 53rd International Film Festival (Leipzig, Germany), on Sunday, Oct 24 in Pomegranate Film Festival (Toronto, Canada). Last Sunday, October 17 it has its American TV premiere by PBS, which continues showing it during this week. The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia seeks to understand why the tightrope has been abandoned by Armenia's society through the story of an orphan boy, who is the last student of tightrope dancing, and his old and marginalized instructors, who are trying to save their beloved art. The story of the last tightrope dancer is a local story, unfolding in a small country. The theme, however, can be found throughout every society in the world: the loss of tradition, and the shift of social values in the face of globalization. The film has been shown on NHK (Japan), SVT (Sweden), TVP (Poland) and YLE (Finland).

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