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The production of Jivan Avetisyan’s “Gate to Heaven” film is nearing its completion after three years. Days ago, the film authors revealed the official trailer and announced  upcoming dates for the premiere. As the Film Facebook page reports, the film will be premiered in Yerevan and Stepanakert in October this year and then will be screened in Los Angeles in March, 2020.

“Gate to Heaven” centers on Robert Stenvall, a European journalist, who returns to Artsakh in 2016 to cover the April Four-Day war. During his time in Artsakh, Stenvall meets Sophia Martirosyan a young Opera singer and daughter of a missing photojournalist Edgar Martirosyan whom Robert left behind in captivity in the village during the fall of Talish in 1992. The film will feature Tatiana Spivakova, Sos Janibekyan, and Naira Zakaryan in lead roles and is expected to begin production in August.

“Gate to Heaven” is a co-production of Armenia, Lithuania. Finland, and France.