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- Inspired by a true story, Lusine, an Armenian teenager from a conservative family in Los Angeles, faces a life-altering choice when she gets pregnant by her African-American boyfriend.
- This is the story of a family in which the father is a wise, rich man, the eldest son is a well-off businessman, the youngest is still searching for himself, and the middle son is the prodigal. That is, prodigal according to those who think they are the only right-minded people, who judge and accuse others in cold blood. The prodigal son, after running away from his father's home, has been flitting about, trying to find some purpose in his life, just like his namesake. But he has not succeeded: he has been defeated; years have been lost and opportunities missed. And now he is trying one more time to start again but his relatives and neighbours will not give him a second chance.
- A musician subconsciously kills his lover while staying in the city during the riots.
- During his military service In the army, and having learned by phone that his girlfriend was pregnant,the boy leaves his unit without permission and takes a train to meet his girlfriend and to end her unwanted pregnancy. On the way, an incident on the train prompts a change of heart as his feelings of guilt won't leave him alone.
- 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 woman awakes from the racket of the broken fish bowl and brutal memories.
- On 12 January 2015, a Russian soldier forces his way into the home of an Armenian family in the city of Gyumri. He kills all seven members of the family. The filmmakers use shots of the real-life protests that followed the slaughter but fictionalize the true event. Their soldier is called Ivan, just like the fool from Russian folklore, who they have interwoven into their narrative in a children's show. The film focuses on the aftermath of the drama, with the characters symbolizing the contradictory reactions evoked by events. The soldier is arrested, but war veterans Vahan and Sargis demand retribution and will do this themselves if necessary. The priest Avetis, however, calls on the people to keep calm and patient, while Vahan's young wife Ani is very concerned. They each seek in their own way to recover the dignity taken from them. The reconstruction of this gruesome event and the aftermath can also be seen as a metaphor for a political and ethical quest.
- The story is about Oscar, an Armenian actor who dreamed of going to Hollywood and becoming a celebrity for many years. Now he won a Green Card Lottery, and it seems his long-standing dream came true! But the good-bye party given for him by his teenage friends takes a completely different path: as a result, everything changes and chain of unpredicted and absurd events brings to a tragedy.
- 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 not agree to abandon his house, although in ruins. In breach of military regulation the militia commander, though recognizing imminent perdition, orders his small detachment to take positions around the old man's house.
- A short documentary film (15 minutes) dedicated to the bright memory of Andrey Tarkovsky - the great master of world cinema. In 1965 A. Tarkovsky visited Armenia, Geghardavank. It is hard to say what he has been looking for and what he has seen there. Fortunately Levon Atoyants has fixed (on occasion) several frames (6min., 35mm, b/w) from the visit of greatest master in Geghardavank. Anyway, such frames provide opportunity for connecting the past and the present by making new shootings and fulfilling the "gaps" which have been missed by the camera 45 year ago. What is the ideology? Indeed, what was Andrey Tarkovsky looking for at the church of XIII century in such a rocky place? Probably, he was looking for God. ... because nothing else is significant in Geghardavank and around. Only the presence of God is felt in that place.
- 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, and shows his attitude to Life and Art. For a long time we had derived consolation from the fact that Tigran Mansuryan, having watched the movie, said, "All the 50 years of my life have been concentrated in these 20 minutes". Officially this was our first movie shot in "Armenfilm" Studio. Communist leaders had not accepted it for several years, and it was hidden because of controversial views, even though in this case we had used the name and authority of Tigran Mansuryan as a cover for shooting the film we wanted.