Love, Lusine is a feature-length documentary following Armenian American jazz singer Lusine Yeghiazaryan over several pivotal years as she navigates her art, family, identity, and motherhood against the backdrop of a changing Armenia.
About the Film
Filmed over three years, Love, Lusine follows Lucy during a period of profound personal and creative transformation. As her music career gains momentum, she grapples with long-standing family rupture, questions of belonging, and the emotional weight of becoming a mother.
At the heart of the film is Lucy’s return to Armenia for an album tour at a moment of growing political instability and collective trauma. As the future of the country feels increasingly uncertain, Lucy reconnects with family, revisits the landscapes of her childhood, and confronts parts of her story she had long kept at a distance. The film explores how personal memory and national history intersect, and how migration and unresolved family wounds shape an artist’s voice.
A Hybrid Approach to Storytelling
Love, Lusine blends intimate verité footage with poetic recreations inspired by Lucy’s childhood memories of growing up in Armenia and immigrating to the United States. While the documentary follows Lucy’s present-day life as it unfolds, the recreations invite audiences into her interior world, giving form to memories and emotions that cannot be captured through observation alone.
Together, these layers create a cinematic language that is both grounded and lyrical, offering a deeply personal portrait of a life shaped by immigration and inheritance.
Why This Film Matters
While rooted in an Armenian American experience, Love, Lusine speaks to universal questions of identity, healing, and belonging.
At a time when immigration stories are often politicized and flattened, the film offers a nuanced, human portrait of migration as lived experience, shaped by memory, resilience, and hope.
Completing the Film
Filming for Love, Lusine began in 2022 and has taken place across Armenia and the United States. As real-world events have unfolded, the story has grown in urgency, and the film is now moving into its final stages.
We are currently fundraising to complete the project, including filming the poetic recreations of Lucy’s childhood and post-production. Our goal is to release the film through a strong international festival run and secure distribution so Lucy’s story can reach audiences around the world.
By supporting the film, you are helping bring an Armenian story, and a deeply human story about identity, migration, and belonging, to a global audience.
Credits
Love, Lusine is produced by Equal Parts Productions, in partnership with the Armenian Film Society, supported by the Independence Public Media Foundation, and directed by Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Maria Vattimo.
Love, Lusine is a feature-length documentary following Armenian American jazz singer Lusine Yeghiazaryan over several pivotal years as she navigates her art, family, identity, and motherhood against the backdrop of a changing Armenia.
About the Film
Filmed over three years, Love, Lusine follows Lucy during a period of profound personal and creative transformation. As her music career gains momentum, she grapples with long-standing family rupture, questions of belonging, and the emotional weight of becoming a mother.
At the heart of the film is Lucy’s return to Armenia for an album tour at a moment of growing political instability and collective trauma. As the future of the country feels increasingly uncertain, Lucy reconnects with family, revisits the landscapes of her childhood, and confronts parts of her story she had long kept at a distance. The film explores how personal memory and national history intersect, and how migration and unresolved family wounds shape an artist’s voice.
A Hybrid Approach to Storytelling
Love, Lusine blends intimate verité footage with poetic recreations inspired by Lucy’s childhood memories of growing up in Armenia and immigrating to the United States. While the documentary follows Lucy’s present-day life as it unfolds, the recreations invite audiences into her interior world, giving form to memories and emotions that cannot be captured through observation alone.
Together, these layers create a cinematic language that is both grounded and lyrical, offering a deeply personal portrait of a life shaped by immigration and inheritance.
Why This Film Matters
While rooted in an Armenian American experience, Love, Lusine speaks to universal questions of identity, healing, and belonging.
At a time when immigration stories are often politicized and flattened, the film offers a nuanced, human portrait of migration as lived experience, shaped by memory, resilience, and hope.
Love, Lusine is a feature-length documentary following Armenian American jazz singer Lusine Yeghiazaryan over several pivotal years as she navigates her art, family, identity, and motherhood against the backdrop of a changing Armenia.
About the Film
Filmed over three years, Love, Lusine follows Lucy during a period of profound personal and creative transformation. As her music career gains momentum, she grapples with long-standing family rupture, questions of belonging, and the emotional weight of becoming a mother.
At the heart of the film is Lucy’s return to Armenia for an album tour at a moment of growing political instability and collective trauma. As the future of the country feels increasingly uncertain, Lucy reconnects with family, revisits the landscapes of her childhood, and confronts parts of her story she had long kept at a distance. The film explores how personal memory and national history intersect, and how migration and unresolved family wounds shape an artist’s voice.
A Hybrid Approach to Storytelling
Love, Lusine blends intimate verité footage with poetic recreations inspired by Lucy’s childhood memories of growing up in Armenia and immigrating to the United States. While the documentary follows Lucy’s present-day life as it unfolds, the recreations invite audiences into her interior world, giving form to memories and emotions that cannot be captured through observation alone.
Together, these layers create a cinematic language that is both grounded and lyrical, offering a deeply personal portrait of a life shaped by immigration and inheritance.
Why This Film Matters
While rooted in an Armenian American experience, Love, Lusine speaks to universal questions of identity, healing, and belonging.
At a time when immigration stories are often politicized and flattened, the film offers a nuanced, human portrait of migration as lived experience, shaped by memory, resilience, and hope.
