Anna Melikyan
Anna Gagikovna Melikyan (Armenian: Աննա Գագիկի Մելիքյան; Russian: А́нна Гаги́ковна Меликя́н; born 8 February 1976, Baku) is an Azerbaijan-Armenian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and TV director/producer, who works in Russia. She is best known for the film "Mermaid" (2008), which received many international and national awards. After her participation at Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, she was listed in the TOP-10 of most perspective film directors by "Variety" magazine. Anna Melikyan was born in Baku (USSR, now Azerbaijan) and grew up in Yerevan (USSR, now Armenia). At the age of 17, she moved to Moscow. In the mid-1990s, Anna Melikyan was a television director, wrote scripts for commercials and television programs, worked in the team of Yevgeny Ginzburg, and participated in the creation of New Year's show programs. In 1998 — he directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the Moscow International film festival. In 2002, she graduated from the directing department of "VGIK" (workshop of S. Solovyov, V. Rubinchik). The first feature film was "Mars", which premiered at the 2004 Berlin film festival. The second feature film "Mermaid" won the "Best Director Award" at the Sundance Film Festival, the FIPRESCI prize at the Berlin Film Festival, and was a Russian Oscar Nominee in 2008. For the film "Star" in 2014, Anna received the prize for "Best Director" at the "Kinotavr" Festival. In 2015, for the film-almanac "About Love", she received two main prizes at ...
Mars
(2004)
Somewhere deep, deep in Russia there is a town called Marks (named after Karl Marks, founder of Communism theory) where all people are working on toy factory and receiving their wages as toys. News from other cities are arriving on very rare occasion. One morning, ... (more)
Somewhere deep, deep in Russia there is a town called Marks (named after Karl Marks, founder of Communism theory) where all people are working on toy factory and receiving their wages as toys. News from other cities are arriving on very rare occasion. One morning, ... (more)
Mermaid (2007)
The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys to Moscow and grapples with love, modernity and materialism. (more)
The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys to Moscow and grapples with love, modernity and materialism. (more)
Star (2014)
Three different persons, three different lives are connected in a mysterious way. 15 year old teenager suffering of misunderstanding, his glamorous and arrogant stepmother and the young untalented but full of optimism actress. Their destinies aren’t predetermined ... (more)
Three different persons, three different lives are connected in a mysterious way. 15 year old teenager suffering of misunderstanding, his glamorous and arrogant stepmother and the young untalented but full of optimism actress. Their destinies aren’t predetermined ... (more)
About Love (2015)
What is love? The heroes of the film try to answer this question. A series of the most different characters and their stories are woven together. Small stories about various things, all about love: a young pair who prefer to live through images of Japanese ... (more)
What is love? The heroes of the film try to answer this question. A series of the most different characters and their stories are woven together. Small stories about various things, all about love: a young pair who prefer to live through images of Japanese ... (more)
Annual Charitable Christmas Evening “Action!” (more)
About Love. Adults Only (2017)
The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd ... (more)
The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd ... (more)
Film about pills from unhappy love (more)
A Mood Like That, Bach’s Adagio and Several Episodes from the Life of the girl Lena (2014)
One day in the life of the girl Lena, looking for reasons (not) to get acquainted with men, (not) to have a family and children, (not) to love. (more)
One day in the life of the girl Lena, looking for reasons (not) to get acquainted with men, (not) to have a family and children, (not) to love. (more)
Tenderness (2018)
One day in the life of Elena Ivanovna in St. Petersburg in search of a man, sex and, maybe, love. (more)
One day in the life of Elena Ivanovna in St. Petersburg in search of a man, sex and, maybe, love. (more)
Fairy (2020)
The creator of the best virtual reality games is convinced that in reality everyone and everything is controlled, but a chance meeting with a young activist opens his eyes to the fact that the world is much wider and more complicated than anything that he knows and ... (more)
The creator of the best virtual reality games is convinced that in reality everyone and everything is controlled, but a chance meeting with a young activist opens his eyes to the fact that the world is much wider and more complicated than anything that he knows and ... (more)
Let’s Fly (1999)
The girl meets a strange boy, who seriously offers to fly to the moon, and she agrees ... (more)
The girl meets a strange boy, who seriously offers to fly to the moon, and she agrees ... (more)
One day in the life of the courier girl (more)
Double Bass (2002)
An instructive story about a man who was born to be happy, and about the contrabass that prevented him from doing it. (more)
An instructive story about a man who was born to be happy, and about the contrabass that prevented him from doing it. (more)
About Love (2011)
A short story about love and how a man literally from scratch can bring the brain to his beloved woman ... Anna Melikyan's short film for Action! (more)
A short story about love and how a man literally from scratch can bring the brain to his beloved woman ... Anna Melikyan's short film for Action! (more)
About Love 2 (2013)
One day in the life of a young couple. Anna Melikyan's short film for auction Action! (more)
One day in the life of a young couple. Anna Melikyan's short film for auction Action! (more)
The Three (2020)
A husband, a wife and another woman. Only three are in the frame. (more)
A husband, a wife and another woman. Only three are in the frame. (more)
Curse of the Onassis clan (2004)
The documentary tells about a scandalous affair that began in 1976 in Moscow. (more)
The documentary tells about a scandalous affair that began in 1976 in Moscow. (more)