Vahagn Khachatryan

Vahagn Khachatryan was born in Yerevan in 1991. In 2008, he enrolled in the Filmmaking program at the Beijing Film Academy. In 2014, Vahagn was accepted into the DOC Nomads Program and spent two years studying in Portugal, in Hungary and in Belgium. Ηis documentaries “Phone Booth”, “This is not a Pipe” and “The Moon The Sun And The Musketeers” were well received at film festivals (DOK Leipzig, Taiwan IDFF, Moscow IFF, Cinemateca Uruguaya, San Francisco) and won several awards. In 2018, he co-founded Oolik Production, based in Armenia. In 2022, “5 Dreamers and a Horse,” premiered at the Visions Du Reel IFF feature length competition and was nominated for the Doc Alliance award. The film was also screened at several other festivals (Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, FidMarseille, Dokufest, RIDM, Jihlava) and was nominated for the Silver Eye awards. Currently, Vahagn is working on his second feature film, “Flying Cows,” which received a Sundance Institute development grant and was part of the Berlinale Talents and Nipkow Program.