Armenia Film Selection
http://www.fiberbit.net/user/yoshida_m/

The Date and the Venue;
August 11th, 12th - Athenee Francais Cultural Center in Tokyo
Kandasurugadai 2-11-4F, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
7min. from Ochanomizu-Sta. and Suidobashi Sta. on JR and Subway.
Tel; 03-3291-4339 (13:00-20:00 from Mon. to Sat.)
August 19th - UPLINK FACTORY
Totsune Bldg. 1F, Udagawacho 37-18, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
10min. from Shibuya-Sta. on JR and Subway
Tel; 03-6825-5502

Tickets;
*For the both of Athenee Francais Cultural Center and UPLINK FACTORY
---Single tickets per screening are 1,000 yen at the door only.
---The advanced tickets are 800 yen. (You can buy it at Athenee Francais, UPLINK FACTORY and some theater in Tokyo.)

Contact:
Armenia Film Selection
http://www.fiberbit.net/user/yoshida_m/
Armenia-films@hotmail.co.jp
Tel; 090-7132-8393 (Okazaki)

Presented by;
CINEMA MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
co-organized by
THE FILM SCHOOL OF TOKYO
JAPAN COMMUNITY CINEMA CENTER

Films;
1, Nahpet by Henrik Malyan
2, The Color of Pomegranates by Sergei Parajanov
3, Calendar by Atom Egoyan
4, Return to the Promised Land by Harutyun Khachatryan
5, Documentarist by Harutyun Khachatryan
6, Lord have mercy by Vigen Chaldranyan
7, Mariam by Edgar Baghdasaryan

*1 and 2 are Japanese subtitles only. (Armenian dialogue)
*3 is English dialogue.
*4-7 are available for English subtitles
*3-7 will be screened by DVD or DV.

Schedule;
Aug, 11th (Fri.) Athenee Francais Cultural Center in Tokyo
12:30 Mariam / 126min.
15:00 Lord have mercy / 101min.
17:00 Nahpet / 93min.
19:00 Calendar /73min.

Aug. 12th (Sat.) Athenee Francais Cultural Center in Tokyo
12:00 Calendar /73min.
13:40 The Color of Pomegranates / 72min.
15:30 Documentarist / 62min.
+ Guest speker by Mr.Numano Mitsuyoshi (Tokyo Univ.)
18:00 Return to the Promised Land / 87min.

Aug. 19th (Sat.) UPLINK FACTORY
11:00 Return to the Promised Land / 87min.
13:00 Documentarist / 62min.
14:30 Calendar /73min.
16:30 Mariam / 126min.
19:00 Lord have mercy / 101min.

Synopsizes
Calendar
Directed by: Atom Egoyan

An Armenian-Canadian photographer (Egoyan) was hired to photograph Armenian churches for a calendar; he brings his wife (Arsinee Khanjian, Egoyan's real life wife) as translator; she falls in love with and leaves him for their driver/guide. In a series of flash-forwards, the photographer stages identical dinners with several women, who pretend to talk on the phone while he writes. His wife, now estranged from him, leaves repeated messages on his answering machine, asking why he never contacts her. Yet another thought-provoking look into strange, intertwined relationships from the always enigmatic Egoyan.

Return to the Promised Land
Directed by: Harutyun Khachatryan

For many ages the Armenian nation, having no statehood, has concentrated all its values in the family and made it the center of the national spirit. The main characters of the film arrived in northern Armenia and not from paradise. They are refugees who escaped from violence. Both of them are young. The woman is pregnant. They create a world around themselves, and thus create themselves.

Documentarist
Directed by: Harutyun Khachatryan

The main hero of the film is the documentary film director, who shoots film with small crew and looks through various plots. His film is compiled of the mosaic of diverse materials, presenting the image of our time and Armenia of the 90s. Children-beggars, disable children left by the parents, newly born children, lost refugees, homeless dogs, which had been shot without pity…Tragedy of society in transition and transitive time…And hope born out of despair…

Lord have mercy
Directed by: Vigen Chaldranyan

The action of this film takes place in the early 1990's in Yerevan. The hero - an actor and film-director - tries to live, ignoring the everyday petty struggles for survival. Unfortunately he becomes involved, against his will, in a whirlpool of dull dramas and tragedies. This is a story of an artist in quarrel with his times and society. It is difficult to classify the film Lord Have Mercy into narrow category of genre.

Mariam
Directed by: Edgar Baghdasaryan

Young woman Mariam, who works in a boarding school for deaf-and-dumb children as a gesture translator, comes to the psychologist with strange problem - weird things happen to her in her own flat. Strong light appears from nowhere which makes all the glass in the house crack and a strange voice accompanies it. Psychologist begins to doubt about the making diagnosis " Schizophrenia".
Then what's going on with this woman in the reality? Does she really need a psychologist? Or does the psychologist need help himself? Perhaps the help of different kind...

Bio-filmographies;
Khachatryan, Harutyun
Born - 09.01.1955 in Akhalkalak (Georgia).
1981- graduated from the Film-Directing Department of Cultural Faculty of Yerevan Pedagogical Institute. Worked as a assistant director and director at the Yerevan Documentary Studio and Armenfilm Studio.

Filmography
1981 - The Voices of the District, script, dir., cam., doc.
1985 - Hosted by the Commander, co-script, co-dir. (along with N.Hovhannisyan), doc.
1985 - Chronicle of A Case, co-script, dir., doc.
1986 - Three Rounds From Vladimir Yengibaryan's Life, co-script, dir., doc.
1987 - Kond, doc.
1988 - The White City, co-script, dir., doc.
1989 - Wind of Oblivion, co-script, dir.
1991 - Return to the Promised Land, co-script, dir.
1994 - The Last Station, script, dir.
2001 - Documentarist, co-script, dir.
2006 - Return of the Poet, co-script, dir.

Chaldranyan, Vigen (Vagharshak)
Born - 26.12.1955 in Yerevan.
1977 - graduated from the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute. 1981- graduated from the VGIK (E.Dzigan's master-class). 1981-85 - worked in the theatre. Since 1988 - a film director at Armenfilm Studio. Starring in many films.

Filmography
1975 - A Place under the Sun (as Artashes)
1977 - Head of Revcom (as Ruben Aslanuan)
1978 - The Golden Smiles, short
1979 - Tales, short
1981 - Hotel Grandma, short
1983 - Anush (as Mosi)
1985 - April, short
1988 - Breath (as Vigen)
1991 - A Voice in the Wilderness, co-script, dir., art., (as Martiros)
1996-97 - God Have Mercy, script, dir., art., (starring)
2001 - Symphony of Silence, co-script, dir., art.


Baghdasaryan, Edgar
Born - 08.03.1964 in Yerevan.
1985 - graduated from the Veterinary Institute in Yerevan. 1986-1987 - a director at Armconcert. Since 1988 - director assistant, later - film director at Haik and Armenfilm studios.

Filmography
1990 - Games, short
1997 - Outflow
2001 - The Land of Holly Rites, feature-doc.
2005- Mariam