Karen Dzhanibekyan

The fourteen-year-old stubborn and arrogant Haik has a dream: to hunt a pheasant. For a long time he tried to a frazzle out his father's hunting gun for that purpose. Eventually he gets the gun. Already in the forest Haik understands it's not a pheasant hunt season; besides he doesn't know how to use the gun. As it gets darker, the colorful autumn wood turns into a cold and a frightening place, that the desperate boy strives to escape... Finally he manages to get a pair of superb pheasants. And perhaps something else, that is much more important.

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A STORY OF A FAMILY, THE HISTORY OF A NATION ”A little piece of land? A whole country? A little group of people or a whole nation? What are they waiting for? Is their queue endless?” Do not expect to get all the answers. A tale of a man and a woman suffering the circumstances of a total energy crisis. Their recollections, short narratives, imagination act as aids in understanding of the story, and in understanding that core human values are shared throughout the world.

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Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia.

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A beautiful girl named Sasha from Russia comes to Armenia. Born between Russian father and Armenian mother, Sasha is searching for the grave of her father who died in the Karabakh War. Karabakh, which was the territory of the Azerbaijani Republic during the Soviet Union’s collapse, has many Armenian residents. At the time, Armenians demanded their independence from Azerbaijani Republic and the subsequent conflict caused heavy casualties. Many Russian soldiers also lost their lives in the war. The conflict is still going on. This film is a postscript to a historical event occurred in the early 1990s and about a still ongoing conflict. In the scene that camera quietly crosses the border from Armenia, the director presents an image of each side of the people communicating with one another despite their own wounds instead of one pointing a gun at the other side.

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An animated film based on the Armenian heroic epic poem Daredevils of Sassoun. The animation centers around the main protagonist of the third branch of the Sassoun family, named David.

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Relegated to the background in the brutal times of a transitional period, the Maestro, who is a devotee of art, an advocate of moral standards, a cellist of a symphonic orchestra, a professor of a conservatory, unable to withstand the prevailing wildness, has inevitable clashes with the environment and experiences a heavy personal drama. Archival footage of protests preceding and following the 2008 Armenian presidential elections are used in the film.

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At 2 a.m., Garegin Sisakian comes to Michael's house and informs him that he is engaged to a girl named Sarah, whose father was a friend of his father's. Michael learns that he will be the godbrother of the newlyweds. On Saturday evening, Garegin takes Michael to Sarah's house to meet his fiance. Sarah quarreled with her mother, and Garegin's inappropriate questions offend Sarah, and she screams and leaves. After Sarah leaves, Garegin starts talking to Bagiryan, Sarah's father. About a month passes, but Michael does not meet with Garegin. But one evening Garegin appears and informs Michael, That he was going to marry Sarah. After his marriage, Garegin leaves his post and leaves the city with his wife.

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In 301 A.D. Gregory the Illuminator healed the one-time Pagan King Tiridates the Great and christened the Armenian people, thus making Armenia the first Christian nation in the world. This is the story about a woman who changed the faith of her nation forever.

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

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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.

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

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A tableaux of poetry and images exploring the historical trauma, identity, and collective memory of the Armenian people centered on an Armenian filmmaker exiled in Berlin.

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Doctor, living through the trials of the Stalin era and the World War II, does not lose his human values.

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Movie about an endless search for an unattainable idyll, lost harmony between man and nature. The director concentrates on the inner world of his characters and the mood of nature.

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Young man is given an opportunity to live his life over again.

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Молодому юристу, в первый день службы, поручают закончить дело, которое вел умерший накануне сотрудник. Однако, блестяще распутав дело и засвидетельствовав связи преступников с прокуратурой, герой принимает неожиданное для профессионала решение - покончить с мирской жизнью и постричься в монахи...

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Ivan and Milton, excavator drivers, accidentally dig up a coffin with the remnants of a secret advisor. Wishing to bury him with honour, two friends go through different authorities but are met with refusal. They take the coffin to Milton's home where resurrected advisor easily integrates himself into their lives, taking away Milton's wife and making career at their company. Ivan and Milton decide to get rid of their new friend.

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The action takes place in one of the Transcaucasian republics in the sixties, where a campaign was launched to breed a new animal, the goat, descended from the mountain tour and the domestic goat.

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A visiting magician arranges a session of collective hypnosis, which reveals the true essence of the town's inhabitants.

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The film is about the last months in the life of a professional revolutionary, the poet Alexander Vermishev.

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Soviet Armenian adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles".

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Every day, at the intersection of streets near a small old pharmacy, janitor Musheg, pharmacist Adamyan, and security guard Gaspard meet. They are all elderly people who lived through the war, during which they lost their loved ones. But the main thing that unites them is their faith in people, in justice, and their ability to come to the rescue when needed.

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Two Armenian emigrants met in distant America. A boy with long, beautiful hair and a hairdresser who has a lot of fascinating stories in stock. The further friendship of the two dreamers is unlikely to be prevented by funny tufts of hair sticking out after an inept haircut...

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The action of the film takes place in a children's colony, where a film is being shot. In the colony, director Manvel Simonyan gets to know the minor prisoner Hovhannes Darbinyan, who was sentenced to prison for stabbing her lover while trying to protect his mother. The director takes upon himself the burden of releasing a juvenile prisoner before the deadline.

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In April (Armenia 1985), on the 70th anniversary of the genocide, on April 24, 1985, Vigen Chaldranyan stages a conversation between the generations in a mixture of comedy and bitter seriousness. As every year, the veterans talk about the days of the war. But while their sons can no longer hear all this, the grandchildren feel called upon to "solve the Armenian question".

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The main events take place on the road while the hero is returning home from the war. Memories of war accompany him all the way.

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A historical chronicle about the history of England during the reign of John Lackland.

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The forester, at the cost of becoming a thorn in the eyes of everyone, protects his native nature and the cradle:

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A crane operator wins a car in a lottery and his life immediately encounters various trials and tribulations.

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The end of the 19th century. Constantinople. Having found out his wife's treachery, Baghdasar decides to divorce her. But that's not how it turned out! Instead, the hypocrisy and the mendacious people around Baghdasar make him leave the house.

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Aghun, early married by her despotic father against her will, wages a war against her husband, her family, the village, the world... She couldn't restrain even when the war is won.

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The film is set in Baku at the beginning of the 20th century. After his death, the wealthy oil magnate Marcos Alimyan bequeathed his entire fortune to his eldest son, Smbat. Influenced by money, Smbat becomes involved in business, forgetting all his lofty aspirations. His younger son, a spendthrift and a reveler, is reformed by the influence of noble love.

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A film anthology consisting of adaptations of works by the great Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan, released to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth.

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