Harutyun Khachatryan

"[Last Station / Verjin kayan] is inspired by the play 'Sojourn at Ararat', written and directed by Gerald Papasian and Nora Armani who also perform in the film. The play was premièred in 1986 in Edinburgh and went on to make a world tour. The film tells the story of three people on tour with a play against the background of a time in which new nations emerge and old rulers make desperate efforts to cling on to power. The scenes in the play are comments on the life of three actors, the Man, the Woman - an Armenian couple - and the Stage Manager, a dissident Russian who was once a famous Shakespearian actor. The picture of the three becomes increasingly clear as the journey passes more and more locations and they meet more and more people." - IFFR

A lyrical journey through Armenia, following the creation and transport of a statue. The simple telling from basic materials of the making of the clay used in the statue, and of the simple but poignant a cappella poetry that is sung as the only commentary, the film is a testament not only to Armenia‘s national poet, Ashugh Jivani, but to the integrity of art, its roots far away from the superficiality of the world, and of the power and truth it can convey.

For many ages the Armenian nation, having no statehood, has concentrated all its values in the family and made it the center of the national spirit. The main characters of the film arrived in northern Armenia and not from paradise. They are refugees who escaped from violence. Both of them are young. The woman is pregnant. They create a world around themselves, and thus create themselves.

Two friends decide to visit friends who left Armenia since long in search of happiness and their own better welfare.

In beautiful black & white, this documentary maker provides his often sombre view of his home country of Armenia, one of the former Soviet republics that found itself in an economic, political and social crisis after independence.

One day, Sona, the widow and mother of three children, turns her attention to the inveterate bachelor Ruben. Since then, an engineer, a jack of all trades and an incorrigible dreamer only thinks about her

The house of a village teacher burns down. Out of sympathy the villagers come to rebuild the house. And here come the real troubles...

Told from the point of view of a rescued buffalo, this is the story of a small town trying to find itself after the Armenian-Azeri conflict. The buffalo's reception by the other farm animals reflects the distrust rife in the countries of the post-Soviet world.

A young woman wanders through a dump, collecting various items from which she constructs something – an object of adoration, or perhaps an unseen instrument through which she wants to convey her voice to the heavens.

Between the late 80s and early 90s, Armenia experienced a deadly earthquake, the Nagorno-Karabakh war and the fall of the Soviet Union. During these years, many Armenians decided to exile. Hayk is one of them, a theater director who has moved to Moscow.

Documentary about everyday life and serious social problems of one of the oldest districts of Yerevan.

Akhalkalaki, Armenian-inhabited town in Georgia, is depicted as burlesque and the same time tragic model of a Soviet town.

The film tells the story of the talented Armenian painter Vahan Ananyan's adventurous life and artistic heritage. Vahan, being born and raised in Yerevan, but growing increasingly disappointed in Armenian reality (the earthquake, the war, the collapse of the Soviet Union), moves to Tallinn, then Kyiv and Odesa to works there. After his passing Vahan's remains were buried in Tallinn, Odesa, and Yerevan. His artistic heritage remains in faraway countries.

A new look at the Armenian diaspora, through the story of Levon, who works in a junkyard in Los Angeles. Through its leaps in space and time, the film exacerbates the disillusionment of its character, who came from Soviet Armenia and is living not the American dream, but the nightmare of unbridled capitalism.