Directing

Garegin Zakoyan

Born April 5, 1947 · Yerevan, Armenian, USSR (age 79)

Garegin Zakoyan (b. April 5, 1947) is an Armenian documentary filmmaker and film scholar. In 1990, he founded the Armenian National Cinematheque, which he headed until 1998. In 2015, he founded and became the director of Apricot Tree International Documentary Film Festival. In 2016, he co-founded and became the president of Filmadaran Film Culture Development NGO. Making his directing debut in 199…

Known For

Calendar

Calendar · 1993

MovieComedyDrama

A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.

Mon Reichshoffen

Mon Reichshoffen · 2023

Mon Reichshoffen

MovieDocumentary

The film is a cinematic love-letter to Reichshoffen, a small, modest town in Alsace, and its residents.

Ayrudzi

Ayrudzi · 2017

MovieDocumentary

The members of the Ayrudzi troupe travel across various villages of Armenia on horseback and put on folk song and dance concerts and shadow theatre performances for the locals.

Debet

MovieDocumentary

Filmed entirely from a single viewpoint during the closing ceremony of the 2023 Apricot Tree IDFF, Debet is an experimental observational documentary that forces the audience to pay attention to the smallest gestures and seemingly insignificant details of human behavior, creating a whole array of fascinating portraits.

Patarag. Armenian Lithurgy

Patarag. Armenian Lithurgy · 2005

Patarag. Armenian Lithurgy

MovieDocumentary

An enthralling and thorough documentation of the traditional Armenian church liturgy.

Prison Art

Prison Art · 1998

MovieDocumentary

This documentary, which features Sergei Parajanov’s heartbreaking letters from prison, explores creativity among inmates and the art born in conditions designed to destroy all traces of selfhood.

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Calendar

Calendar · 1993

MovieComedyDrama

A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.

Production Manager

Mon Reichshoffen

Mon Reichshoffen · 2023

Mon Reichshoffen

MovieDocumentary

The film is a cinematic love-letter to Reichshoffen, a small, modest town in Alsace, and its residents.

Director

Ayrudzi

Ayrudzi · 2017

MovieDocumentary

The members of the Ayrudzi troupe travel across various villages of Armenia on horseback and put on folk song and dance concerts and shadow theatre performances for the locals.

Director

Debet

MovieDocumentary

Filmed entirely from a single viewpoint during the closing ceremony of the 2023 Apricot Tree IDFF, Debet is an experimental observational documentary that forces the audience to pay attention to the smallest gestures and seemingly insignificant details of human behavior, creating a whole array of fascinating portraits.

Director

Patarag. Armenian Lithurgy

Patarag. Armenian Lithurgy · 2005

Patarag. Armenian Lithurgy

MovieDocumentary

An enthralling and thorough documentation of the traditional Armenian church liturgy.

Director

Prison Art

Prison Art · 1998

MovieDocumentary

This documentary, which features Sergei Parajanov’s heartbreaking letters from prison, explores creativity among inmates and the art born in conditions designed to destroy all traces of selfhood.

Producer