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BAA'BEL

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By Jivan AVETISYAN

Animation - Development 2024

LOGLINE

A patriarch fighting for his freedom to destroy the tyrannical force while his rival depends on his superior army to become the most powerful world leader - a deadly clash erupts between these two powerful titans of ancient civlizations.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Animation, Historical, Drama
- Countries
- ARMENIA
- Director(s)
- Jivan AVETISYAN
- Producer(s)
- Narek VAN ASHUGHATOYAN (ERA 405), Jivan AVETISYAN (Fish eye Art Cultural Foundation)
- Synopsis
- The story takes place circa 3000 B.C.E., after the Great Flood, during the clash of ancient civilizations. Bel, the ruler of BAA’BELON, initiates the construction of a high, mountain-shaped tower supposedly to serve as a rescue place, in protection from future floods. To build this great structure which has never before been attempted, he invites Hayk, a fifth generation descendant of Noah from the land of ARARAT, who has mastered the architectural and building skills of the ancient world and is the only one who knows how to erect such colossal constructions. Hayk possesses several other secrets handed down from Noah and has a mission to eventually pass them on to worthy future guardians of those secrets.
  
  Hayk accepts Bel’s invitation and starts planning and building the tower together with his multi-skilled sons and grandsons. The tower rises and BAA’BELON flourishes thanks to the work of Hayk and his descendants.
  
  Bel however has other plans, he has become arrogant, and reveals to Hayk his true intentions when he asks him to give him other ancient secrets of constructing weapons of destruction of great reach. After having a mountain-shaped tower higher than the mountain Ararat, Bel realizes that in order to reach God and become God himself he must conquer holy Ararat itself.
  
  His grand plan all along was to build a network of such towers which can rain death and destruction from above on all the lands that refuse to be subjugated. He tells Hayk that he wants to be the sole ruler of all lands, extending his power on the whole world and demanding that he be worshipped as the greatest God. He asks Hayk to assist him with his secret knowledge.
  
  Brave and freedom-loving Hayk refuses to serve Bel, abandons the tower project and returns to his country with his heirs. Filled with anger and enmity, Bel raids the lands of Hayk with his huge army to punish him and to force him back. The battle between the two titans and their soldiers takes place in the field of Khoshab, to the south of the biblical Mount Ararat. The battle rages for many days and on the last day, Hayk uses the unique and great long bow of the ancient world, the only one in existence from the time of Noah, which he had inherited. He has also forged a special tri-bladed, meteoric ironhead arrow and through a secret process. He climbs on a high hill and sees Bel in the middle of his horde. He bends his great bow and its steel arrow flies through the air for a great distance, pierces Bel’s armor and passes through him, killing him on the spot. Seeing that their leader is mortal and gone, Bel’s armies retreat and leave the lands of Hayk.