Screenings
September 01 15:00
DSEGH HOUSE OF CULTURE
Private screening for international festival guests, film critics, and media representatives.
Lost, Found, Hidden
Poland/Armenia, 2025, 58’
in Polish/English/Armenian w/ Arm./Eng. subtitles
Director: Vahram Mkhitaryan
Scriptwriters: Vahram Mkhitaryan, Aleksandra Majdińska
Cinematographer: Vahram Mkhitaryan
Producer: Vahram Mkhitaryan, Aleksandra Majdzińska, Tsovinar Soghomonyan
Editor: Sławomir Witek
Sound: Katarzyna Figat
Composer: Arsen Babajanyan
Production Company: Fundacja Mlecznego Brata (Milky Brother Foundtaion)
Private screening for international festival guests, film critics and media representatives.
The film unveils the extraordinary journey of a medieval Armenian manuscript—from the 12th century Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia on the Mediterranean to modern-day Poland. It tells the story of its mysterious disappearance after World War II, it’s almost accidental rediscovery in 1993, and its subsequent concealment once again. The fate of the Skevra Evangeliary mirrors the history of the Armenian minority in Poland, making its journey deeply symbolic. The film follows the testimonies of those connected to the manuscript’s travel —people who played a crucial role in its survival and whose lives have been profoundly marked by this remarkable book.
Director, screenwriter, videographer, photographer, producer born in Yerevan in 1977. In 2001, he graduated from the Armenian State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Culture, specializing in feature film directing. During his studies, he was a co-founder and vice president of the ‘2P’ film club at the National Film Archive. As a cameraman, he worked with Internews Armenia, Reuters, and A1+ TV station. In 2005, he became a scholarship holder of the Lane Kirkland Program, a Polish-American Freedom Foundation initiative. He is a graduate of both the feature film and documentary courses at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. His independent short documentary The Shepherd’s Song (produced by Wajda Studio) and his debut short feature film Milk Brother (produced by Munk Studio of Polish Filmmakers Association) were showcased in the competitive sections of nearly 70 film festivals in Poland and around the world, where they won over 30 awards and distinctions. He is a member of the Board of the Directors’ Circle of the Polish Filmmakers Association. He is a founding member of the Tricity Film Circle of the Polish Filmmakers Association. In 2024, he became an expert for the Polish Film Institute. He has been a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage multiple times, as well as the Visegrad International Fund (Bratislava). He was also a scholarship holder of the Minister of Education and Science for outstanding young scientists. In 2016, he defended his PhD in Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Since 2012, he has been a faculty member, assistant professor at the Department of Sculpture and Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, specializing in Photography. He teaches “Elements of Film Production” and “Short Film Forms Production.” In 2023, at the same academy, he co-founded and now leads the Interdisciplinary Department of Small Film and Video Forms.
Select Filmography
Milky Brother (short fic., 2014), The Shepherd’s Song (short doc., 2014), There He Lies… Here He Lies (short doc., 2020), Lost, Found, Hidden… (medium doc., 2025).