Category: Completed
Completed
AT THE ROADSIDE
A FILM BY NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN AT THE ROADSIDE Short Synopsis 1992, Karabagh. A military convoy, evacuating civilian population under shells, passes through desolate terrain. The combatants spot an old man with a goat, sitting at the roadside next to his wrecked house, and attempt to take him along. The old man will [...]
GRASPING AT THE LADY BIRD’S LEG
A film by AREG AZATYAN GRASPING AT THE LADY BIRD'S LEG “Grasping at the lady bird’s leg as tightly as I could, I was souring in the yellow sky. The ladybird’s smile was like a smiling Sun. Its small wings were fluttering and we were gliding along.” 2009 IFF Rotterdam 2009 IFF Anapa/Kinoshok 2009 IFF [...]
INVISIBLE DOLPHINS
A film by AREG AZATYAN INVISIBLE DOLPHINS The film is about Arsen Azatyan’s childhood memories. Very small part of the 8mm footage that was shot decades ago has survived, nevertheless, that is enough to show a unique and innocent boy’s young experiences and dreams. CAST & CREW Original title INVISIBLE DOLPHINS Filmmaker Areg Azatyan World [...]
CATATONIA
A film by KAREN KHOSROVYAN CATATONIA The film is about a musician who, during his stay in the city in the period of riots, subconsciously kills his lover. Tormented by his conscience, he gradually loses his mind and sees his lover in front of his eyes. FESTIVALS CAST & CREW Original title CATATONIA Filmmaker Karen [...]
CHRISTMAS
A FILM BY NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN CHRISTMAS Relates how a five year-old girl puts a tiny Christmas tree into a fish bowl on the New Year’s Eve of 1937. Suddenly NKVD officers rush in, to scan the flat, and they start to break the fish bowl to pieces savagely… 2002. A white-haired old [...]
SABRE DANSE
A film by NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN SABRE DANSE Relates how a German professor is stuck in a traffic jam on an Armenian highway along a mountain range - because of the cattle lingering on the road. After a long time, he is saved by the sounds of Aram Khachaturian’s “Danse with Sabers” on [...]
GUARDIAN ANGEL
A film by NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN GUARDIAN ANGEL What is “Guardian Angel”? In short it is about a soldier. The film is originally created on the basis of Igor Stravinsky’s piece of music “A Story of a Soldier,” the libretto of which tells about a soldier and the Satan. It may be described [...]
BLACK HOLES
A film by NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN BLACK HOLES This film is about a friend of ours, a victim of Soviet regime. When a child, being very gifted in physics, he already had a few discoveries. Later, being considered by KGB one of the "suspects", he was driven out from that area. As a result, [...]
BAGATELLE
A FILM BY NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN BAGATELLE The film is about a modern Armenian composer Tigran Mansuryan, who has already become one of the classics of Armenian music. But the story does not run in the traditional way, but under the impression of a story he told, which appears to be artistic material, [...]
