Moscow International Festival to host Armenia for the first time

June 10, 2009 - 23:57 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - 31st Moscow International Movie Festival will for the first time host Armenia.



7 Movies authored by Harutyun Khachatryan: "Frontier", "The Return of the Poet", "Documentalist", "Kond", "Last Station", "Return to the Promised land" will be screened within festival framework, in Perspectives category.



Harutyun Khachatryan was born in 1955 in Akhalkalak (Georgia). In 1981 he graduated from the Film Department of Cultural Faculty of the Armenian State Pedagogical Institute in Yerevan, Armenia. Worked as an assistant director and film-director at the Armenian Documentary Studio and later - at Hayfilm/Armenfilm Studio. His films won many prizes at various Int'l film festivals. In 2003 Harutyun Khachatryan was awarded by State Premium of Armenia. Meritorious Artiste of Republic of Armenia. In 2007 he received Prince Klaus Award (The Netherlands).
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