Below is a list of well-known Armenian film directors
From Armenia
Davit Gharibyan (1990), Social video maker: best known social video "Armenian genocide: We Remember and Demand 106" (2021).[1]
Hamo Beknazarian (May 19, 1891 – April 27, 1965), pioneer of Armenian cinema: best known for "Namus" (1925).[2]
Frunze Dovlatyan (May 26, 1927 – August 30, 1997), Armenian film director born in Gavar, Armenia. One of his most famous works are "Hello, That's Me!" (1967).[3]
Sergei Paradjanov (January 9, 1924 – July 20, 1990), Armenian film director born in Tbilisi, Georgia. His most famous works are Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) and The Color of Pomegranates (1969), one of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century, a biography of the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova written and directed by Paradjanov.[4]
Jerzy Kawalerowicz (19 January 1922 – 27 December 2007), was a Polish film director and politician, having been a member of Polish United Workers' Party from 1954 until its dissolution in 1990 and a deputy in Polish parliament since 1985 until 1989.[7]
Atom Egoyan (born July 19, 1960), critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian film maker, known as one of the most remarkable figures of contemporary independent filmmaking.[9] His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures, as Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997) and Ararat (2002). Egoyan was born Atom Yeghoyan in Cairo, Egypt, the son of Shushan (née Devletian) and Joseph Yeghoyan, artists who operated a furniture store.[10] His parents were Armenian-Egyptians.
Aram Avakian, American film director and editor (April 23, 1926 – January 17, 1987) Editor: See it Now, Sin of Jesus, Mickey One, Lilith, Miracle Worker, etc. Director: Jazz on a Summers Day, End of the Road, 11 Harrowhouse, Cops and Robbers, etc.
Anna Melikian (born February 8, 1976, Baku, Azerbaijani SSR, Soviet Union), Russian-Armenian film and TV director/ producer whose work has been recognized with several awards. After her participation at Sundance Film Festival she was listed in the TOP 10 of most perspective film directors by Variety magazine.[1]
Hughes Brothers (born April 1, 1972), collective name for American twin brothers and film directors, producers and writers Albert and Allen Hughes. They are known for co-directing such visceral, and often violent, movies as Menace II Society and From Hell. Raised by their Armenian mother, Aida, they often talk about their Armenian background as a great support structure for their earliest film work, which began when they were 12.[11]
Samuel Khachikian (October 21, 1923 – October 22, 2001), Armenian-Iranian film director, screenwriter, author, and film editor.[17]
Henri Verneuil (October 15, 1920 – January 11, 2002), French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker.
Noura Kevorkian Armenian-Lebanese-Syrian writer-director-producer. She was born in Aleppo, Syria but grew up in Lebanon and is a Lebanese citizen. She studied Finance, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, and Cinema at the University of Toronto in Canada. Kevorkian is a filmmaker specializing in documentary and narrative genres for film and television. Her recent film BATATA won a prestigious Peabody Award, won the Best Feature Documentary (an Oscar-qualifying Tanit d’Or) at the Carthage Film Festival, the Human Rights Award at the Carthage Film Festival, the Amnesty Award at the Durban International Film Festival, the Audience Award TOP 10 Favourite Films at Hot Docs, and garnered three nominations in the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards.
Lev Kulidzhanov, film director and professor at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography