Armenia Submits Anahid Abad’s ‘Yeva’ for Oscar Consideration

YEREVAN””Armenia has selected the film ”˜Yeva,’ written and directed by Iranian-Armenian filmmaker Anahid Abad as its official submission to the 90th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Funded by Iranian cinema producer Taqi Aliqolizadeh, the film is a joint 2017 production between the two countries, Mehr News Agency reported.

The film is about a young woman named Yeva who escapes her influential in-laws with her daughter Nareh, after her husband’s tragic death and takes refuge in a village in Artsakh.

The 94-minute “Yeva”