In this film, three Armenians are sketched out brilliantly and with delicacy, through four protagonists who aspire to fulfill their dreams. A lift operator in a hospital wants to travel into space, a farmer in search of a perfect wife and the young feminist girls who simply want to live their lives.
Aren Malakyan
Aren Malakyan was born in 1991 in Vanadzor, Armenia. In 2015 he graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography, Faculty of Feature Films. During his years of study he participated in an international workshop organized by Lodz Film Academy in Yerevan. It was during the workshop “World: From Dusk till Dawn” that Aren shot his first short documentary Grandma Grandpa (2013). His graduation film Girl On The Moon (2014) received the prize of the President of Republic of Armenia in 2015, as well as several prizes at international film festivals, including Bastau IFF, New Wave IFF and Fresco IFF. It won the Best Film award at Web Apricot Yerevan Festival. Since then Aren has directed the Mini-TV Series Special Department (2015) for the Armenian Public Television, and the short film Snow (2016) that had its international premiere at Shanghai International Film Festival.
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.