Sergei Israelyan

Hostages

Gevorg Adamyan is a man of power who enjoys many privileges and is guided throughout his life by the slogan "the purpose justifies the means". This enables him always to stay at the top of the pyramid but, at the same time, gradually ruins him as a person and brings unhappiness to his own family, destroying the lives of his close friends and relatives.

White Dreams

Small provincial town at the end of the 19th century. Barber Hakob is a passionate pigeon-admirer with them finding his peace of mind and filling the dullness of provincial life with poetry. Soon he is forced to choose his pigeon loft or his daughter's happiness.

Gikor

A village boy meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city to work for a rich trader.

A Piece of Sky

Nothing is easy for Torik, a shy orphan adopted by his aunt and uncle: he struggles to fit into village life, learn a craft, or find a wife. When Torik does fall in love – with Anjel, a local prostitute – he must face down the disapproval of his narrow-minded community and assert his right to happiness.

A Piece of Sky

Nothing is easy for Torik, a shy orphan adopted by his aunt and uncle: he struggles to fit into village life, learn a craft, or find a wife. When Torik does fall in love – with Anjel, a local prostitute – he must face down the disapproval of his narrow-minded community and assert his right to happiness.

Arevik

Arevik is a young woman taking care of the children of a widower who is in jail, due to her testimony.

Life Triumphs

Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.

Life Triumphs

Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.

My Heart Is in the Highlands

Screen version of William Saroyan's play about a family of Armenian immigrants during the Great Depression.

Sour Grape

Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the father returns.

Troubles

Zambakhov tries to marry his ugly daughter to a young man who just returned to town.

Bridges Over Oblivion

Kirovakan, Armenia, 1968. A street in the town is being renamed, but nobody seems to know whom after. A chance encounter between a student running late to his thesis defense, and a young woman determined to leave the town forever. 25 years earlier, Genrikh Zakaryan, a young resistance fighter, smuggles a secret Nazi operations map through occupied territory. Imaginings and history meld into one, echoes of past and future coalesce: “the fate of Genrikh Zakaryan is intangibly intertwined with the fate of today’s youth.”

Triangle

The movie tells the life story and friendship of five blacksmiths in town of Leninakan during the war and the years preceding it - as told by the son of one of the blacksmiths.

People Of Our City

Armenian film containing three short stories: the story about the first driver and coachman of old Yerevan, the complicated psychological relationship of a loving couple set in the backdrop of Garni Temple during reconstruction and a story about human life from the point of view of a poor and homeless dog.

Road to the Stage

Famous Soviet Armenian clown Leonid Yengibarov stars in this film about the artistic quest of a talented circus actor.