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Anahid Yahjian

Anahid Yahjian (b. 1989, Bulgaria) is an Armenian American independent writer, director and producer of experimental, documentary and narrative cinema. Her work is driven by questioning and pursuit: of history, of power, of memory, of liminality, of the surreal and the sublime. Her latest hybrid/experimental documentary, Domestic Demon, is supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and is set…

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Transmission · 2019

MovieDramaRomance

After a deadly car crash, a queer activist couple are flung into parallel realities and must embark on a search between worlds to find each other again.

Hishé

MovieDocumentary

HISHÉ (Remember) is a meditation on alienation, confusion, grief and the burden of remembering. These four elements frame my relationship with the Nagorno-Karabakh region now more than ever.

Domestic Demon

Domestic Demon · 2026

MovieDocumentary

A housebound mother's hunger for agency and control among the mutating textures and temporalities of her home sets off an uncanny transformation. A portrait of matrescence and post-partum depression in the time of pandemic lockdown.

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Transmission · 2019

MovieDramaRomance

After a deadly car crash, a queer activist couple are flung into parallel realities and must embark on a search between worlds to find each other again.

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Hishé

MovieDocumentary

HISHÉ (Remember) is a meditation on alienation, confusion, grief and the burden of remembering. These four elements frame my relationship with the Nagorno-Karabakh region now more than ever.

Writer

Domestic Demon

Domestic Demon · 2026

MovieDocumentary

A housebound mother's hunger for agency and control among the mutating textures and temporalities of her home sets off an uncanny transformation. A portrait of matrescence and post-partum depression in the time of pandemic lockdown.

Director