Shot entirely on mobile phones, this highly experimental film emerges from years of displacement, loss, and survival following the war in Syria, where my family once lived, and beyond. The film begins with footage captured in 2019 in a new family apartment in Yerevan, Armenia—where the family originates from—after more than six years of rupture marked by the looting of the family home in Damascus and the death of my father. Working with minimal means, I turned inward, using light, darkness, and self-portraiture to translate a mind compressed by responsibility and suppressed creativity, finally finding a sense of space and the ability to breathe in a long awaited new personal room since childhood.

The second part unfolds in Berlin, in front of the Brandenburg Gate—a long-imagined destination finally reached in 2024, a city where creativity can exist freely. Blowing the duduk, a traditional Armenian instrument, becomes an act of arrival and release. The film concludes as a quiet declaration of endurance, transformation, and the beginning of a new creative phase.

The film is dedicated to Sergei Parajanov, a Soviet-Armenian filmmaker and artist whose artistic freedom led to repeated persecution by Soviet authorities. Imprisoned for several years, he continued to create artworks using any materials available. His legacy stands as a powerful testament to creativity as an act of resistance under oppression, a theme this film similarly reflects by exploring artistic freedom under constraint.