Mes fantômes arméniens / Tamara Stepanyan / Armenia, France / 75’ / 2025

In My Armenian Phantoms, filmmaker Tamara Stepanyan embarks on an evocative journey through the forgotten world of Armenian cinema. Sparked by a dialogue with her father, renowned Armenian actor Vigen Stepanyan, this captivating documentary brings to life the vibrant and often overlooked history interwoven with personal loss. Drawing on a rich tapestry of archival footage and her own memories, My Armenian Phantoms reveals a profound cultural and artistic legacy to new audiences. The film explores the creative spirit behind films that spoke to universal themes of identity, love, struggle, and artistic expression – a cinematic tradition that produced some of the most visually striking and thematically powerful films of its era. It captures not just Soviet Armenian cinema, but the enduring soul of Armenian storytelling – its beauty, its struggles, and its unyielding spirit.

Director Tamara Stepanyan
Script writers Tamara Stepanyan, Jean-Christophe Ferrari
Producers Céline Loiseau, Alice Baldo, Tamara Stepanyan
Associated producers Miléna Poylo & Gilles Sacuto
Film Heritage consultant Vigen Galstyan
Assistant director Ophelia Azizyan
Cinematographer Claire Mathon
Editor Olivier Ferrari

Tamara Stepanyan
Tamara Stepanyan was born in Armenia. During the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, she moved to Lebanon with her parents. After studying and working in Lebanon, Tamara continued her studies at the National Film School of Denmark (creative documentary) under the supervision of Arne Bro (exchange program).
He has been working and living in France for the past five years. Stepanyan has made several films that have been screened and presented at prestigious festivals such as Locarno, Busan, La Rochelle. She is currently developing her third documentary Le village des femmes and working on her first narrative screenplay.