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- Today, Mel Divan is a successful American businessman with a terminal illness. But long ago he was an infamous criminal who escaped from a mental institution in Communist Armenia. With the rise of capitalism, Mel returns to Armenia to make good on a promise to deliver the bounty of his robbery to the widow of a fellow thief. Mel plans on spending only enough time in Armenia to locate the widow. But nostalgia and fate drive him, as the same mental institution from which he escaped is now on the auction block. Mel buys it and finds refuge in running the psychiatric hospital while living among its eclectic residents and helping each in a unique way. Mel will live his final days as a saint provided he can keep one step ahead of the Chief Psychiatrist and a local Mob Boss.
- Focuses on a woman and child after the 1988 earthquake that rocked the Soviet state of Armenia. They find themselves listening to telephone wires and call it music. They became close and the little boy decides that he has found the basis for the making of his new family. The woman then adopts him, however, he believes that they family needs a father as well.
- 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 documentary shows 30 minutes of inedited scenes about Armenian director Sergej Paradzanov's movie The Colour of Pomegranate. Vospominanye o Sayat Nova (Memories about Sayat Nova) it's the title Paradzanov wanted for his film.
- Mariam (the Armenian name for the Virgin Mary) is a young Armenian woman who works at a school for the deaf. She is obsessed with her own virginity and behaves so strangely that those around her, even her psychotherapist, cannot understand her. The psychotherapist thinks the only war to cure her disorders is to awaken her sensuality, but Mariam resists the idea. Then, under rather interesting circumstances, Mariam becomes pregnant...
- A husband and a wife, Armenian actors, live in Europe. Far away from their historic native land, they try to find their spiritual roots.
- A surreal drama where the worldwide problem of emigration is summarized.
- Poetic essay about the beginning of life from labor pains and birth and about its symbolic meaning.
- Screen version of Yervand Otyan's "Comrade Panjuni" is powerful satire on demagoguery and hypocrisy of the Armenian politicos and political party activists.
- The main character - an actor and film-director - tries to live, ignoring the everyday petty struggles for survival.
- A film about awakening. The winter returns after the spring was already in its rights. The stork back from the warm countries touches slightly the snow on its nest and flies away. The unexpected cold costs many troubles for the farmers. But nothing could stop the awaking nature. The spring is back. A big tree with many nests on it. The Biblical Mountain is on the background. And many storks land their nests on this big tree.
- Poliuto, who adopts Christianity, is sentenced to death by the Romans. The execution is to be performed by his father in law. The devil temptation reveals emotions and real attitude to personal and national fate.
- Yeranouhy and Mariam Aslamazians. Two sisters. Two elderly women with young glittering eyes. Two outstanding artists presenting a big number of their works to a gallery in their native town. 'Father to be proud of his daughters', - one of them said.
- A short film about a single tree in the forest which has been cut and used as wood.
- Seven convicts run away from a penal colony to a town destroyed by an earthquake in search of their relatives. An old captain goes after them with a two-day liberty order for each of them. But liberty in the destroyed world, permeated with the stench of corpses and perpetuities is no longer necessary. The film is about the on-going catastrophe of the human soul.
- An animated film for children about how animal houses should be beautiful, comfortable and durable.
- 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.
- A young journalist finds a notebook, which reveals some details about his grandfather's death during the Civil War of the 1920's. The notes contradict the family legend. The journalist tries to find the truth.
- According to the Armenian medieval legend, St. Karapet (John the Baptist), before being beheaded, cursed the women, forbidding them to approach his grave. However, a girl named Houri goes on a pilgrimage to the grave of the Saint and grows a tail and beard. Thus, she is condemned to eternally serve to the grave of the saint. The opening of the film shows the arrival of the relics of St. Karapet for reburial. Houri, with her devoted companion Loshtak (arm. The lop-eared), appears in the presidential hall. Here begins the tragedy; the eternal spirit of love appearing in our loveless reality destructs and disappears.
- How Armenian villages are being abandoned.
- This film is a silent dialogue between a man and a woman, which reveals a "black wall" of alienation in their relationship. The anxious feeling that was born during their teenage years has developed into a feeling of unbearable co-existence.
- 'Black & White' is a story about seven women living in a remote mountain village during the war, waiting for their husbands. Their children don't survive the hunger and cold. Their husbands perish on the battlefields. Now, the war is over and only one man comes back to this village of widows. But life and love are unbearable, poisoned by death and solitude.
- There was ... Heaven. Then Lenin, then Stalin. White angel - dark angel. Crowds and chaos. Destroyed churches. First seal - seventh seal. Death. War. Murder and ressurection of white angel. Blood. Devil. Suicide of the hero ... last seal.
- The film about first days of Artsakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
- A young woman wanders in a scrap heap, gathering different objects, out of which she constructs something - an object of adoration, or maybe an unknown instrument she wants to use to carry her voice to heaven.
- Doctor, living through the trials of the Stalin era and the World War II, does not lose his human values.
- Coming across on the battlefield, one of the two wounded soldiers of two hostile armies saves his enemy's life at the expense of his own.