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\n\tGhosts of the past start haunting C\u00e9line, played by Camille Cottin (Call My Agent!<\/em>, House of Gucci<\/em>), in Tamara Stepanyan\u2018s In the Land of Arto<\/em>, which will open the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on on the Swiss lakeside town\u2019s Piazza Grande on Wednesday, Aug. 6.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cC\u00e9line arrives in Armenia to legalize the death of her husband Arto,\u201d a plot description explains. But she discovers that he lied to her about his identity. \u201cSo begins a journey through Arto\u2019s past, as she meets people left disabled by the battles of 2020, veterans from the 1990s, hauntings of a never-ending war\u201d with Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n \n\tZar Amir Ebrahimi also stars in the fiction feature from France-based Armenia-born Stepanyan (Embers<\/em>, My Armenian Phantoms<\/em>), who has so far been best known for her documentary work. Other cast members include Shant Hovhannisyan, Hovnatan Av\u00e9dikian, Alexander Khachatryan, Babken Chobanyan, and Denis Lavant. Stepanyan wrote the screenplay with Jean-Christophe Ferrari, Jean Breschand, Romy Coccia di Ferro, and Jihane Chouaib.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cA woman chases a ghost, but how should she bury it?\u201d asks the Locarno festival website. \u201cCan the dead\u00a0be\u00a0saved?\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI no longer live in Armenia, but it haunts me like an amputated limb, living inside me like a ghost,\u201d Stepanyan shares in a director\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n \n\tTHR<\/em> can exclusively share two clips from In the Land of Arto<\/em>, which is a French-Armenian co-production. Be For Films is handling sales duties on the movie.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the first clip, C\u00e9line is looking to track down Arto\u2019s birth certificate \u2013 only to run into an unexpected challenge. Check out that scene below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tIn the second clip, Cottin and Amir Ebrahimi\u2019s characters drive towards their next destination and share insights into their lives, with the latter discussing protecting family and motherland. Their exchange ends with thoughts on happiness. <\/p>\n \n\tWatch the clip below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe Locarno Film Festival 2025 runs Aug. 6-16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghosts of the past start haunting C\u00e9line, played by Camille Cottin (Call My Agent!, House of Gucci), in Tamara Stepanyan\u2018s In the Land of Arto, which will open the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on on the Swiss lakeside town\u2019s Piazza Grande on Wednesday, Aug. 6. \u201cC\u00e9line arrives in Armenia to legalize the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[6159,6154,6156,6155,6157,6160,1171,1307,6158],"class_list":{"0":"post-12530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-amir","9":"tag-arto","10":"tag-camille","11":"tag-clip","12":"tag-cottin","13":"tag-ebrahimi","14":"tag-film","15":"tag-land","16":"tag-zar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}