Entre Père et Fils

Shahnur Sahiner lives in Istanbul. Although a doctor by profession, he has dedicated his whole life to teaching the Armenian history and language. His memory holds a mine of information but, since the age of eighty, his memory has begun to dwindle. His son Ara, the filmmaker, lives in Boston and pays his father regular visits. As for Ara’s son Norvan, he has settled in Paris. What the filmmaker set out to do was fight against this forgetting, observe and faithfully record the passing of time. How can one preserve the memory of these brief meetings between father and son? The many trips between Paris and Istanbul? How is it possible to make the past and the idea one has of it into something tangible? What can a person really remember when he is no longer able to recognise his own children? A search for identity, inspired not only by the Armenian cultural heritage, but also by the shock of seeing the hours mercilessly fleeing past.