Robert Sahakyants

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

Not everybody is endowed with a vivid imagination. One person can imagine paradise, yet the other one can only imagine himself as being the boss.

"...whoever tells me a story and I say, "It's not true, I don't believe it," will receive half the kingdom as a reward." decided the bored king.

The magical trolls are in for a night full of ghosts and goblins as they enter the "Castle of Doom" on Halloween night.

A fisherman catches a talking fish and spares its life. After that, he meets a grotesque, evil monster in a state of constant change.

The Norfins are in for a delightful surprise when a charming alien with magical powers drops in for a visit.

A young boy spends his entire day working in the fields, enjoying the company of animals, and joyfully singing along with them.

The king goes out onto the streets of his kingdom to find out how his people feel about him.

Musical fantasy based on Armenian fairy tales.

Based on a tall tale, The Liar Hunter by Hovhannes Tumanyan.

A folk parable about a resourceful peasant who cured the king of his poor appetite.

The tale of Lilith, first wife of Adam.

There was a priest in the village and he had a dog. The priest owned a big shed in which he kept a huge amount of meat. The dog guarded this shed from other dogs, but one day the dog could not resist and ate one of the sausages. The priest noticed this and killed his pet. Then he buried the dog near the fence and made an inscription: "Priest had a dog, he loved it, it ate a piece of meat, he killed it, buried it in the ground, and wrote this inscription so that...", but, fixated, begins to write it on the ground. Thus he, continuing to write, visits various parts and countries, and eventually returns to his home and finishes writing near the place where he buried his dog. But upon entering the barn, the priest sees various animals greedily eating everything in it.

For Hasan the cobbler, the skins he sewed become a scourge, and one day they even "kill" a person. Baregut Sultan makes a verdict and the skins are hanged in the square.

A king believes the peasants are hoarding all the good food.

A little liar on the back desk during a geography lesson talks about his summer adventures.

The idler Nazar, who only used to count flies that he had killed, suddenly appears on the throne as a result of the ignorance of people and the guile of the priest.

Animated short about presidential elections of 1991 and its consequences in the Armenian people’s life under the rule of Pan-Armenian National Movement. Based on a song by Armenian poet and songwriter Ruben Hakhverdyan.

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

A little boy steals a dog so that everyone would be afraid of him.

Three stories about naive and deceitful people, a talkative mouse, and a foolish king.

He's been called a 'wonderful troublemaker', 'comet man' and 'the last hippy of the pink city'. Robert Sahakyants was a renowned Soviet and Armenian animator. He was a director, writer and artist who created animated films. Robert Sahakyants used his work to express his particular view of the world around him. His animated films feature constant movement, whirls of colour and myriad wonderful characters inspired by Armenia. Robert Sahakyants was a true patriot to his motherland. The love for his people drove Robert Sahakyants to openly criticise everything and everyone he disagreed with. He boldly spoke his mind about anything he found troubling, from political events to ugly sculptures in nearby houses. The film features recollections from Robert Sahakyants's friends and family.

An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.

An educational animated series about the rise and fall of civilisations. Using a magic door to the "storehouse" of history, a wise grandfather and his curious grandson travel into the distant past – they go to Babylon, befriend a group of ancient humans, and stop by Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece.