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BORDER

Harutyun Khachatryan | Armenia/NL 2009 | 82 min.

Material: 35mm
Format: 35mm
Original language: no dialogue

Script: Harutyun Khachatryan
Camera: Vrezh Petrosyan
Editing: Harutyun Khachatryan
Music: Avet Terteryan

Production: Harutyun Khachatryan
Print/Sales: Golden Apricot Fund for Cinema Development

German Premiere

A contemplative and poetic docu-drama by the Armenian master Harutyun Khachatryan, in which he reflects on the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict in the 1990s through the story of a buffalo on a farm filled with animals, farmers and refugees, in his recognizable, idiosyncratic style.

Harutyun Khachatryan was born in Georgia in 1955 where he completed his film studies. He worked as director and directing assistant and is now head of the documentary department of the Hayfilm/Armenfilm Studios. His films won many prizes at various international film festivals.

Films (selection): The Wind of Emptiness 1989 | Return to the Promised Land 1991 | The Last Station 1994 | Documentarist  2003 | Return of the Poet  2005 | Border 2009

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