Arsinée Khanjian
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1958-09-06
Locus Natus: Beirut, Lebanon
Et ut:
Fat Girl
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is...
release : 2001.03.07popularis : 21.507
The Lark Farm
The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather,...
release : 2007.01.01popularis : 8.159
Exotica
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend,...
release : 1994.11.30popularis : 18.246
Irma Vep
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les...
release : 1996.10.01popularis : 12.237
Adoration
For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an...
release : 2009.04.15popularis : 5.169
Where the Truth Lies
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
release : 2005.10.07popularis : 11.282
Sabah
One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's not. Unbeknownst to her family, she goes on a...
release : 2005.06.04popularis : 2.657
Last Night
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
release : 1998.10.23popularis : 14.147
Ararat
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
release : 2002.05.20popularis : 13.798
Felicia's Journey
Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager...
release : 1999.10.08popularis : 9.601
Sentimental Education
The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice. The film examines the...
release : 1998.01.01popularis : 2.12
Calendar
A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their...
release : 1993.06.03popularis : 4.425
Late August, Early September
A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
release : 1999.02.10popularis : 6.005
Montreal Stories
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first...
release : 1991.11.08popularis : 2.35
Stone Time Touch
Stone, Time, Touch is a documentary made by Gariné Torossian about the relationship of three Armenian women from the diaspora with the land of...
release : 2007.10.23popularis : 1.621
Speaking Parts
Hotel employee Lisa develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance, a struggling actor who has appeared in several films as an extra.
release : 1989.09.29popularis : 3.054
The Cut
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin...
release : 2014.10.16popularis : 7.888
Eden
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife...
release : 2014.11.19popularis : 7.477
A Portrait of Arshile
Egoyan juxtaposes home-video images of his son Arshile with a self-portrait of the famed Armenian artist, Arshile Gorky; Egoyan narrates in English,...
release : 1995.01.01popularis : 0.524
Sarabande
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he...
release : 1997.10.24popularis : 1.001
Ms. Scrooge
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She...
release : 1997.12.10popularis : 1.858
Atlit
In October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions arise between elders Darel and Cali when Darel proves...
release : 2015.01.21popularis : 1.894
Hokees
Anahida, a contemporary Armenian woman, is pregnant with the child of her Turkish lover who is haunted by the past. An artistic blending of the real...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 0.295
Nobody Else But You
The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau,...
release : 2011.01.12popularis : 5.086
Next of Kin
Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all...
release : 1984.11.30popularis : 3.398
The Adjuster
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
release : 1991.11.27popularis : 5.336
The Captive
Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra...
release : 2014.09.05popularis : 17.052
Code Unknown
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris,...
release : 2000.11.15popularis : 10.479
The Other Side of November
Who would you be today if, a few years ago, you had not chosen the path you took? Another person, in another life. Completely, definitely,...
release : 2016.10.09popularis : 0.961
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable...
release : 2004.01.01popularis : 0.799
We Are Gold
Ten years after the tragic death of her parents in a mining disaster, Marianne returns to her hometown. She returns to GOLD, the rock band formed by...
release : 2019.03.29popularis : 2.489
Guest of Honour
Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting...
release : 2020.07.09popularis : 4.142
Tenderness
It's the first time Adrien is entering a homosexual sauna. In the space of one night, he discovers this microcosm where the comic aspect of the...
release : 2018.11.10popularis : 0.997
Family Viewing
An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a...
release : 1987.09.09popularis : 2.03
The Sweet Hereafter
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer...
release : 1997.09.25popularis : 9.537
The Box of Sun
In this silent, surrealist fantasy, thick clouds in a scorched sky prevent the sun from reaching the earth. Only a group of children in this gray...
release : 1988.09.11popularis : 0.815
Citadel
A documentary about a journey to Beirut
release : 2006.07.03popularis : 0.526
Chickpeas
Raffi, Paul and Ohan grew up together in war-torn Beirut. Ten years later, we find the childhood friends in Hollywood, caught up in a tougher...
release : 1992.01.01popularis : 1.713
Bloodless: The Path to Democracy
In the course of history, only a few revolutions have been successful, let alone those without Bloodshed. Nikol Pashinyan, a charismatic former...
release : 2020.09.10popularis : 0.937
In Passing
A visitor to a conference in Montreal arrives at the airport and has a strange experience with the customs officer. Short film written and directed...
release : 1991.11.08popularis : 1.474