Harutyun Khachatryan

This is the second story in the five-film documentary series by director Harutyun Khachatryan. TheONE theme uniting them all was initially thought to be combined in one film, which later on brokeinto valueless details impossible to be withdrawn. Here came the idea of separating four differentheroes in five different films, under the main headline. (imdb)

Between 1988 and the early '90s, three events shook Armenia: a terrible earthquake, the Nagorno-Karabakh war, and the fall of the USSR. As a result, some people chose exile. (imdb)

A poetic docu-drama based on real events witnessed by Armenian master Khachatryan. He reflects on the tragedy that befell his people during the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the 1990s, after the Soviet Union fell apart. He does so without words or indeed human protagonists, through the story of a buffalo who is found stuck in a ditch in the countryside. He is brought to a nearby farm where animals, farmers and refugees are gathered to hide and recover from the conflict. (Warsaw Film Festival)

Harutyun Khachatryan, chose his nation's 19th century poet, Ashugh Jivani, as his new film's central spirit. This is hardly accidental, for nothing here is prosaic. Here is a dazzling, alternative vision of a cinema that is essentially poetic, metaphorical and allusive. A work of tactile sensuality, it nominally depicts the step-by-step creation of a monumental statue of the poet that ends up traveling on the back of a truck through the Armenian countryside. (imdb)

The chapters The Quarry, Maternity Hospital, Beggars, Beggars' Feast, Children's Home, Refugees and The Shooting all give a testimony of today's Armenia. Working with stone, weddings and a woman giving birth, the sense of solidarity - these are among the lighter aspects of a country devastated by war and unemployment. A country gripped by poverty, exodus, alcoholism and crime. (Karlovy Vary IFF)

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

Beautiful portrait of the common life in Armenia with a touch of art vision.