Golden Gate Armenian Film Festival

"Yeva" is a captivating Armenian drama film that tells the story of a young woman who flees from Armenia to a remote village in Artsakh after being framed for her husband's death. The film has been presented at more than 40 festivals worldwide, won 20 awards including the Golden Apricot International Film Festival. Watch the trailer.

"On February 21st, 1944 the French resistance figure Missak Manouchian, was executed in Mont-Valerienne along with his friends. That heroic fighter of the movement is my great uncle. 80 years after Missak's execution, I discovered his notebooks to my great excitement. It's a real treasure in my hands. I slide my fingers over the French and Armenian pages, which were written by Manush's hand. He confided his doubts, hopes, thoughts and impressions to these notebooks. These notes revive him."  Katia Guiragossian. Watch the trailer.

Armenia's official submission to the Academy Awards 2025. Live Q/A with director Edgar Baghdasaryan.

After the collapse of any empire, human destinies are crushed under the rubble. Yasha's fate is a tragicomic story of an ordinary soviet worker who has served faithfully all his life in an unpleasant production and now cannot come to terms with the changed realities. He continues to live in the country that no longer exists. The dead continue to bury the living. Watch the trailer.

There was, There was not  follows four woman living in the Republic of Artsakh, an unrecognized country reckoning with the aftermath of one war while on the precipice of another. In the midst of its uncertainty, four woman build a life with the hope of making their home a better place. When war breaks out again, what began as an observational meditation on woman's roles, after conflict becomes an urgent and intimate record of their lives interrupted once again by war. From taking up arms on the front lines to fleeing their homes as refugees, we watch each woman's life change irrevocably. The war ends in the unimaginable: the complete ethnic cleansing and erasure of their homeland. Amid these woman's struggle for survival in a new reality, this film becomes the myth of a home lost forever and the power of story to keep it alive. 

Luka, a young and ambitious soldier, embeds himself in the legendary Fort Kairos where heroic warriors defend the remains of civilization. His hopes to serve as an elite sniper are crushed when he is assigned to maintenance and must submit to the code of Kairos: obedience, endurance, sacrifice. As he rises through the rank, Luka finds joy and strength in friendship with Konstantin, an enigmatic radar engineer and Geronimo, a light-hearted private. Watch the trailer.

In an Armenian village with a patriarchal tradition, five women who are daughters, mothers and grandmothers debate together about life and war while they prepare lavash, the Armenian traditional bread. Watch the trailer.

The movie is based on the real life story of Aurora Mardiganyan, an Armenian genocide survivor,  who after escape, became an actress in the United States. 

Produced by Bars Media Documentary Film Studio (Armenia) in collaboration with Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion (Germany) and Broom Films (Lithuania). Watch the trailer. 

When her brother goes missing during the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, Shoghakat decides to film her parents search and emotional process - even at times when others might have put down the camera. The film won the IDFA award for the Best Film in International Competition, as well as the FIPRESCI Award.  Watch the trailer.