Three people and a lorry are on the road: A dog passes, and it is fall the statue loses the head. A place of village. A brand-new pedestal, which waits for its statue. A sentinel, the rehearsal of the brass band. At night, another place of village, another rules. The theft of the head… Next morning. Inauguration and white sheet reveals the bewilderment of the collected population. –São Paulo International Film Festival
Was born in Armenia in 1955. Studied at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Meudon, France, and moved to Paris in 1971. In 1976, founded a theatre company and produced several plays, always working concomitantly with theatre, cinema, especially short-films and as a TV actor. He directed the short films Misters Dames (1997), Terra Emota (1999), Lux Aeterna (1999), Line of Life (2003) and One Fine Morning (2005); the medium-length films Accomplished Mission (1992) and The Fifth Dream (1994); and the feature We Drank the Same Water (2007). His last short film, Barking Island (2010), won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. He acted in Robert Guédiguian’s Armenia and The Army of Crime. –São Paulo International Film Festival
