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born in Yerevan
graduated from Fine Arts and Drama Academy in Yerevan
actor at the State TV Theatre in Yerevan, assistant director and director at Armenian Documentary Film Studios
graduated from Film Academy – VGIK in Moscow
director at "Armenfilm" Studios
Special Screening of films in Cinematheque Francaise in Paris
Member of the General Assembly of Cinematheque Francaise
Series of short documentaries about Armenian Culture and History on German TV (ORB/SFB/RBB)
Retrospective of films in Cinematheque Francaise at the 60th Anniversary of the Cinematheque in Paris
One-Week Screenings of Selected Films in Berlin
Guest-Professor at the Film and TV Department in the University of Kassel, Germany
founded "Studio DS" – Film Production and Art Development Fund
Professor, co-heading the Film and TV Department at the University of Kassel, Germany
“Outstanding Personalities. 20th Century and Centuries Change” Portrait series using exclusively shot documentary footage with Marcel Marceau, Pope John Paul II, Krzysztof Penderecki (work in progress)

Retrospectives in Moscow
http://www.cdkino.ru/event/408893/
https://unikino.ru/david-safaryan-retrospective-65-12-2-18/
https://unikino.ru/david-safaryan-retrospective-65/
http://www.eisenstein.ru/events/allphoto/518/?sphrase_id=4574

2018
Retrospectives in Amsterdam
David Safarian in EYE Filmmuseum Amsterdam, 10 films, 3 days, 3 different programmes
The Premiere of 28:94 Local Time and the start of theatrical release of Hot Country, Cold Winter in The Netherlands. The films included in the Retrospective Programme are purchased for the Collection of The Netherlands Film Museum.
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/film/hot-country-cold-winter
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/film/david-safarian-nothings-lost
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/film/david-safarian-notwithstanding
Armenpress, August, 2, 2018:
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/942495.html

2019
Belgian Premiere of Hot Country, Cold Winter
in Bozar / Brussels introducing the theatrical release in Belgium
https://www.bozar.be/en/activities/hot-countrycold-winter

FILMOGRAPHY


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Hot Country, Cold Winter (director)
(theatrical version of 28:94 Local Time)
Grand Prix Best Feature Film and Best Actress Award at 5th SR Socially Relevant International Film Festival, 2018, New York, USA
Best Narrative Feature Film Director Award at 19th ARPA International Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2016
Included in the Collection of The Netherlands Film Museum

28:94 Local Time (producer, director)
World Premiere at the 19th Tallinn International Black Nights Film Festival, 2015
Best Screenplay Award and Special Mention of Jury in Armenian Panorama at 13th Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival, 2016
Official Out-of-competition Programm of 38th Moscow International Film Festival, 2016
Effulgent Angel Prize at
13th Effulgent Angel International Film Festival, Moscow, 2016
2 Awards of National Film Academy of Armenia: Best Actress and Best Art Director, 2018
Included in the Collection of The Netherlands Film Museum


The Lost Paradise (director)
World Premiere at the AFI International Film Festival in Los Angeles, 1992
Main Programme – Grandeur Locale
22nd Rotterdam International Film Festival, 1993
Main Programme – Cinema of Today
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Montreal World Film Festival, 1993
Included in the Collections of Cinematheque Francaise and The Netherlands Film Museum

Shorts:

Champion (producer, director)
Premiered in Official Out-of-competition Program at 39th Moscow International Film Festival, 2017
Included in the Collection of The Netherlands Film Museum

Lullaby (producer, director)
World Premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival, 2002
Main Programme – Cinema of Tomorrow - New Tends
Included in the Collection of The Netherlands Film Museum

Documentaries (selected):

Shorzha-island (producer, director)

Traces of War
(producer, co-produced with Richter Production)
Best Middle-length Film Award – 9th Atlatidoc Documentary
Film Festival, Montevideo 2015
Best Film made by non-ethnologists/anthropologists - 8th Ethnographic Film Festival, Rovijn, Croatia, 2016

Expectation (producer, director)
Included in the Collection of The Netherlands Film Museum

1700 (director)

Christmas (director)

131st Catholicos (director)

Warmth-sickness (producer, director)
Included in the Collections of Cinematheque Francaise and The Netherlands Film Museum

Devotion (director)

Garnanamouth (director)

However Odd, but Khokhlova (director)
FIPRESCI Prize – XV International Film Festival in Moscow
Main Prize – 34th International Film Festival in Oberhausen
Included in the Collections of Cinematheque Francaise, The
Netherlands Film Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in New
York, Circulating Film and Video Library

The Forest
(director)
Included in the Collections of Cinematheque Francaise and The Netherlands Film Museum

Fire! (director)
Included in the Collection of The Netherlands Film Museum


The Doctor (director)

Engine-driver (director)

My Sky, My Land (director)

Vocation (director)
Included in the Collection of The Netherlands Film Museum