5 Dreamers and a Horse

SYNOPSIS: 5 Dreamers and a Horse tells the stories of four Armenians characters who try to fulfill their dreams. An elevator conductor in a hospital wishes to go on a journey into space. A young farmer dreams of finding the perfect spouse. Two girls wish to live their love story. They are all driven by one desire that is to make their dreams come true. Their stories unravel as protests against the power in place are happening all over the country. Each dreamer stands for each generation of Armenia’s modern history : Soviet, post-Soviet, and the Velvet Revolution. Karen, Amasia and Sona represent the new generation and despite the difference in their lifestyles, they will protest side by side. 

DIRECTOR: Vahagn Khachatryan

Vahagn Khachatryan was born in Yerevan, in 1991. At the age of seventeen, he moved to China. From 2008-2014 he studied Filmmaking at the Beijing Film Academy, where he shot several documentaries and received the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for Masters in Documentary. For the last ten years Vahagn Khachatryan has been working as a programmer and the assistant director at the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival. Between 2014 and 2016 he was part of the DOC Nomads Programme, making documentaries in the three European countries part of the programme : ULHT - Lusófona University (Portugal), SZFE - University of Theatre and Film Arts (Budapest, Hungary), LUCA - School of Arts / College Sint Lukas (Brussels, Belgium). He shot Phone Booth (2014) in Portugal, This is not a Pipe (2015) in Hungary, Lost Dream (2016) in Belgium. These films were shown in several film festivals around the world. The Moon The Sun And The Musketeers is his latest documentary which premiered at the Visions Du Réel in Switzerland and shown at film festivals such as DOK Leipzig, Taiwan IDFF, Moscow IFF, Cinemateca Uruguaya, San Francisco and 30 more International film festivals, winning several awards.

FILMOGRAPHY:

2022 5 Dreamers and a horse

2017 The Moon the Sun And the Musketeers 

2016 Lost Dream

2015 This is not a Pipe

2014 Phone Booth

2013 First step

2012 Lao Hang 

DIRECTOR: Aren Malakyan

Aren Malakyan was born in Vanadzor, Armenia. In 2015 he graduated 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. In frames of the "World: From Dusk till Dawn" workshop Aren shot his first short documentary "Grandma & Grandpa". His graduation film "Girl On The Moon" 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 directed the Mini-TV Series "Special Department" for Armenian Public Television in 2015 and the short film "Snow" which premiered at Shanghai International Film Festival.

FILMOGRAPHY:

2022 5 Dreamers and a horse

2017 Snow 

2015 Special Department

2014 Girl On The Moon

Prize of the President of Republic of Armenia

Best film, Web Apricot Yerevan Festival

2013 Love Confession in Japanese Style

2013 Grandma & Grandpa

Directed by:Aren Malakyan, Vahagn Khachatryan

Year of production: 2022

Country: Armenia, Georgia, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany

Duration: 1h 25m