Armenia Studio

Not everybody is endowed with a vivid imagination. One person can imagine paradise, yet the other one can only imagine himself as being the boss.

"[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

Armenia in the Middle Ages ... the desert ... the bell-tower of a half-destroyed church ... Martiros languishes in the desert. His heart strikes out beyond the narrow monastic circle.

Poetic essay about the beginning of life from labor pains and birth and about its symbolic meaning.

A large pink bunny has adventures and many drinks at the tavern in between.

The film explores the two central themes of Sergey Paradzhanov’s works that the great master had been particularly interested in: “Eros and Thanatos”… (Love and Death). His reflections on these eternal and never-to-be-solved mysteries of human nature are conveyed in his films and drawings through Paradzhanov’s unique language that has no analogies.

A successful businessman with a terminal illness returns to Armenia and buys a mental institution.

An adult cartoon about an elderly man who travels by train to the "End of the Earth".

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.

A short documentary by Levon Grigoryan about the making of Parajanov's «Sayat-Nova», or «The Colour of Pomegranates».

Someone gives a hatchet to people of freezing country, but their lack of skill and misunderstanding how to use it lead to endless deaths and disasters

The film tells of the life and work of Sergey Paradzhanov. On December 15, 1973, the Master was to leave for Yerevan to start work on a film based on Andersen’s fairy tales. It is not known why he had changed his decision, and left on that very day for Kiev where, two days later, on December 17, he was arrested. The film recounts the years the director spent in prison. The author tries to penetrate the mysteries of the Master’s spiritual world, naming the sources, from which he drew the strength to endure the adversities of not only camp life, but of the life in general that had endowed him with huge talent and made him pay for it in full measure.

Life in Gyumri during the Karabakh war is full of hope and disappointment. Men work for their living, women wait for the return of their husbands and sons, efforts are topped by coming victory.

About the adventures of gas pipeline workers and residents of the village where this gas is supplied.

The kid is trying to avoid going to the kindergarten, because at home, as he thinks, it is a lot more fun and enjoyable with the beloved cat. His parents and grandmother have to catch the boy and run after him, tearing him off the curtains and dressing the careless child. But they will still deliver him to the garden, and it is still more interesting there than at home.

Wordless animated fim from Robert Sahakyants

In a world where everything has become cardboard, the hero discovers the magic in simply stopping and looking. Observation is the last magic we have left.

Animated short about presidential elections of 1991 and its consequences in the Armenian people’s life under the rule of Pan-Armenian National Movement. Based on a song by Armenian poet and songwriter Ruben Hakhverdyan.

The main character - an actor and film-director - tries to live, ignoring the everyday petty struggles for survival.

Screen version of Yervand Otyan's "Comrade Panjuni" is powerful satire on demagoguery and hypocrisy of the Armenian politicos and political party activists.