Karen Mesyan

Movies

Autumn Sun
Cinematography
Aghun, early married by her despotic father against her will, wages a war against her husband, her family, the village, the world... She couldn't restrain even when the war is won.
The Father
Cinematography
Builder Hovsep Manukyan's big and restless family hosts his old father Poghos who is forced to move from his native village. Many good and bad, funny and sad, important and unimportant events take place in the family of Hovsep, that help the older and the young to share their most valuable experience - culture of life, co-existence and devotion.
The Father
Camera Operator
Builder Hovsep Manukyan's big and restless family hosts his old father Poghos who is forced to move from his native village. Many good and bad, funny and sad, important and unimportant events take place in the family of Hovsep, that help the older and the young to share their most valuable experience - culture of life, co-existence and devotion.
We Are, Our Mountains
Cinematography
Calm of the mountain village is disturbed by the investigation on stray sheep. Four shephards, living in Armenian highlands, cut a stray sheep for a dinner. Revaz, their neighbour and owner of the sheep, soon appears. Shephards even manage to agree on "ransom" but novice police lieutenant interferes with the deal trying to start an official investigation.
Saroyan Brothers
Cinematography
1920. Last days of the first Armenian Republic. Armenian Army fights on two fronts: war with Turkish army in the west, and Red Army incursion and Bolshevik mutiny in the northeast. Hayk Saroyan returns to his native provincial town from Russia to assume a minor post at Dashnak Army command center. His brother Gevorg, captain at the same command center, is a real patriot prefering death to "eternal exile", army power to relegious mercifullness. Very soon a suspicion creeps inside him: his beloved brother is Bolshevik spy.
We
Camera Operator
Monumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.
Heat
Art Direction
The action of the film unfolds in a farm in Australia . The strained relationship between the farm's residents, a woman and two men, is like a relentless drought that threatens to destroy the crops. And when trouble seems inevitable, nature pours heavy rain on the land and people
Barekendan
Cinematography
Based on a fairy-tale by Hovhannes Tumanyan it tells a story of a man and wife who find themselves in comical situations because of their foolishness.
Barekendan
Camera Operator
Based on a fairy-tale by Hovhannes Tumanyan it tells a story of a man and wife who find themselves in comical situations because of their foolishness.
People Of Our City
Cinematography
Armenian film containing three short stories: the story about the first driver and coachman of old Yerevan, the complicated psychological relationship of a loving couple set in the backdrop of Garni Temple during reconstruction and a story about human life from the point of view of a poor and homeless dog.
People Of Our City
Stage Director
Armenian film containing three short stories: the story about the first driver and coachman of old Yerevan, the complicated psychological relationship of a loving couple set in the backdrop of Garni Temple during reconstruction and a story about human life from the point of view of a poor and homeless dog.