Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

INTERNATIONAL DOX: FEATURES

Endless Escape, Eternal Return

Armenia
2013 — 90' / Color

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Synopsis

In 1988-1989 filmmaker Harutyun Khachatryan started his painful exploration of alienation and rootlessness among Armenian exiles. Since then he has shot a huge archive depicting the developments of those days and concentrated on the personal life stories of several Armenian artists to be discovered in 5 documentaries. This is the first part. The documentary video footage starts with l988.

Director Biography

Harutyun Khachatryan (born 1955, Akhalkalaki, Georgia), is a director, producer, scriptwriter, and Honored Artist of RA. Since 2006, Khachatryan is a voting member of European Film Academy, Director of Golden Apricot FCD, and since 2004 the Co-founder and the General Director of Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival. Khachatryan was awarded with the Prince Klaus Award in 2007. In 2008, he became a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture of France.

Director

Harutyun Khachatryan

Producer

Harutyun Khachatryan

Cinematographer

Suren Tadevosyan

Vrezh Petrosyan

Editor

Karen Baghinyan

Karine Vardanyan

Sound

Hayk Israelyan

Karen Tsaturyan

Contact

Golden Apricot FCD
Moskovyan st. 3
0001, Yerevan, Armenia
+374 10 52 10 42
[email protected]