Vocation

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.

Young man is given an opportunity to live his life over again.

Variations on the theme: today over 300 000 children are fighting wars across the world.

He had a dream: a kite. He presents his childhood toy-airplane to a boy and flies its kite which didn’t want to take wing, and… flies himself.

The film is about Russian silent movie star Alexandra Khokhlova. She was the first Soviet blacklisted actress. In her 90es, Khokhlova acts in this extraordinary documentary: she acts herself. Film critics recognised her appearance here as the last and brilliant role of great actress.

An elderly woman walks in the snow-covered city. She buys pomegranates, grapes, pears in the market and comes home. She creates a warm Armenian still-life from this fruits and starts to paint. From the very first line on the white canvas till the ready painting we follow the work of artist Mariam Aslamazian in her studio in Moscow. She finishes the painting. Switches off the light, locks the door and leaves the studio.

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.

A STORY OF A FAMILY, THE HISTORY OF A NATION ”A little piece of land? A whole country? A little group of people or a whole nation? What are they waiting for? Is their queue endless?” Do not expect to get all the answers. A tale of a man and a woman suffering the circumstances of a total energy crisis. Their recollections, short narratives, imagination act as aids in understanding of the story, and in understanding that core human values are shared throughout the world.

To the memory of the visit of the Pope John-Paul II to Armenia.