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Edgar Baghdasaryan’s "Lenghty Night" film has been included in the long list of the 2020 Oscar International Feature Film Category. The Academy announced the full list of eligible films and countries on Monday. According to the Academy website, a record-breaking total of 93 countries have submitted entries to be considered for best international film nominations at the Academy Awards.

As Hollywood  Reporter wrote earlier, the historical drama produced by Yerevan's Sharm Holding (also known as Erken Kisher) pivots around three stories set across a thousand years of Armenian history, where an unusual and attractive stone is the common thread.

Beginning in the 21st century, with a story about a couple whose relationship is under stress, the film goes back in time to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and far into the country's distant past in the early 11th century to create three self-contained stories of human strife.

Opening with the contemporary story of a couple driving aimlessly around Yerevan at night, venting their frustrations with a scene that includes the husband picking up a prostitute, while his wife sits furiously in the car, Lengthy Night touches upon the tragedies of Armenia's past, the memory of which continue to hold the country together as a nation to this day.

The film starring Shant Hovhannisyan, Samvel Grigoryan, Luiza Nersisyan and Babken Chobanyan, won best film honors and five other awards, including for best script, cinematography and director, earlier this year at Armenia's Anahit National Awards Ceremony.

The 92nd Academy Awards are set to take place February 9, 2020.