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Open Doors
The word “karchadosh” can be translated as “short chest”. You either climb mount Karchadosh or you don’t. But the doors here are always open. The local sanctuary is tended by a young man, who doesn’t speak very much. Open Doors observes the people who live in the mountains alone with their faith, without intermediaries. Life flows here without any religious or patriotic pathos and perhaps that is why it seems eternal.
Open Doors will have its Armenian premiere within the frames of “Apricot Tree” film festival.
Armen Gasparyan
Born in Leninakan (Gyumri) in 1970, Armen Gasparyan studied at Leninakan Art School named after S. Merkurov (1980-1984). In 1987 he worked as an assistant to a projectionist and in 1988 got the job of a projectionist at Leninakan’s “Oktyabr” cinema. In 1989 he worked as a fireman at the Leninakan State Dramatic Theatre named after V. Adjemyan. In 1991 he had a film directing course in A. Mkrtchyan՚s master class at Kumayri- Phoenix Film Studio. In 1993 Gasparyan moved to Moscow and studied screenwriting at VGIK (Class of V. Chernikh). Organized the A-Art Film Studio in Gyumri (1995-1998), producing four documentaries, out of which The Eclipse Witnesses got a special Critics՚ Award at the San Gio IFF in Verona, Italy, 1999. In 2000-2008 Armen Gasparyan was living in Kaliningrad, Russia, where he made four documentaries. The film Chronicles of the Restorers got a special prize at the Debut- Kinotavr IFF, Moscow, Russia. 2001. Since 2009 he is living in Armenia again and is engaged in film producing and directing. Inspired by the accounts he heard in Kaliningrad, Gasparyan wrote the narrative feature film screenplay The Last November about the deportation of Kaliningrad’s German population during World War II, which was picked up by both European and Russian producers and will start production soon.
Filmography
2015 – White Day
2015 – Open Doors
2014 – Stolen Childhood
2011 – The Armenian Bread
2008 – My Brother Is a Bishop
2002 – The Russian Name
2001 – Chronicles of the Restorers
2001 – Christmas Territory
1998 – The Eclipse Witnesses
1996 – The Hermits of Alexandropol
1995 – Self-portrait with the Bible
1995 – The Liturgy