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“The Road” by Armenian director Alexander Baghdasaryan has won a blue star award in the best short film nomination at the Brazil International Film Festival.

“It was my coursework of the second year of the studying, as I filmed it when I was 19 years old. I submitted it to different festivals with some of them accepting in the short film competition. I received an invitation from Brazil to attend the award giving ceremony. Thus, I left for Brazil without even hoping to receive an award,” Alexander Baghdasaryan, 23, told Panorama.am

The young Armenian filmmaker arrived in Rio on the day of the ceremony, and missed the screening of his film that received good feedback as he learnt later.

Alexander has studied at the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography (Edgar Baghdasaryan’s studio). The film “The Road” with the total budget of just 150 USD was recognized the Best Debut by Hayak National Cinema Awards of Armenia in 2014.

The two-part 24-minute long film features complicated moral dilemmas. Two totally different periods of time that have similar situations. In the first story insubordination to a German officer is a life risk. Sometimes the price for humanity and for keeping a human nature is too high. The second story presents a nowadays fatal incident when two young businessmen hit a child on the village road. What to do? Leave the dying child and escape or make a hard but the only right decision?