Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Overview

Directors: Rouzbeh Akhbari and Felix Kalmenson
Armenia/Iran
Experimental | 18 min
Russian with English subtitles

A Passage tackles the political economy and social ecology of border infrastructures in Southern Armenia. Looking at how processes of rapid militarisation and neoliberalism have restructured the borders, this film focuses on two significant events that illustrate the dominant political shifts in the region: the recent erasure of the historic Yerevan-Baku Railway and the upcoming construction of an industrial Free Economic Zone (FEZ) to replace it.