Armenia
THE SWALLOW’S TOAST OF FAITH
45 MIN
2026
Journalist Mnatsakan Azizyan and singer Juletta Arustamyan have been forcibly displaced several times over the past thirty years. Suren, a student and event host, meets them in an attempt to understand the discussions surrounding the possible settlement of Azerbaijanis in Armenia. What he discovers, however, goes far beyond what he expected.

Cast & Crew
Producers: Avetik Chalabyan, Tigran Hambardzumyan, Hovhannes Ishkhanyan
Directors: Hovhannes Ishkhanyan, Suren Belyan
Script: Hovhannes Ishkhanyan, Suren Belyan
Director of Photography: Vardan Petrosyan, Hovhannes Ishkhanyan
Production Design: Elen Grigoryan
Music: Juletta Arustamyan
Sound Design: Rouzanna Khachatryan
Editing: Hovhannes Ishkhanyan
Cast: Suren Belyan, Mnatsakan Azizyan, Greta Azizyan, Garun Stepanyan, Juletta Arustamyan, Gayane Grigoryan, Elen Grigoryan, Karapet Poghosyan
Production Companies: HayaQve, Persona Grata, Vaver
Hovhannes Ishkhanyan
Hovhannes Ishkhanyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia, in 1988. He has been working in documentary filmmaking for more than ten years.

Filmography
Family Album (2014), Incomplete Portrait of Ilik (2018), A Chronicle of Exes (2018), Who’s That Grandpa? (2019), The Chemistry of Sevaberd (2020), The Only Graduate (2020), Pause, Passerby, Pause (2020), Before Working Abroad (2020), Sleep Art (2020), Beauty and the Lawyer (2024), A Toast to the Swallow's Faith (2026), Alpherartz: Endless Battle on Canvas (2026)
Suren Belyan
Suren Belyan was born in 2003 in the village of Hnaberd, Armenia. He graduated from the Documentary Film Directing Department of the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography. The Swallow’s Toast of Faith is his directorial debut.

Filmography
My Family (2026), A Toast to the Swallow's Faith (2026)

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