Arsinée Khanjian
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Biography: Arsinée Khanjian (born 1958 in Beirut, Lebanon Արսինէ Խանճեան) is an Armenian-Canadian actress and producer. In addition to her independent work and stage roles, she is regularly cast by her husband, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in his films. She has a bachelor's degree in French and Spanish from Concordia University and a master's degree in political science from the University of Toronto. Her husband, Egoyan, credits her for inspiring him to further explore his Armenian roots. She lives in Toronto with her husband and their son, Arshile. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arsinée Khanjian, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Beirut, Lebanon
Birthday: September 06, 1958
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Gender: Female
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Fat Girl
Overview: Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-07
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The Lark Farm
Overview: The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather, misfortunes of one wealthy Armenian family.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Exotica
Overview: In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-30
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Irma Vep
Overview: Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Clad in a rubber catsuit and unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself adrift in the insanity of the film industry…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-10-01
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Adoration
Overview: For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-15
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Where the Truth Lies
Overview: An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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Sabah
Overview: One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's not. Unbeknownst to her family, she goes on a whirlwind affair before both culture and love collide.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-06-04
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Last Night
Overview: Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-23
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Ararat
Overview: Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-20
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Felicia's Journey
Overview: Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks unsettling secret.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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Sentimental Education
Overview: The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice. The film examines the hollowness of his glamorous lifestyle, leading to self discovery and ultimately a personal catharsis (and his own death). The film is based on (really, inspired by) the French Book, L'Education Sentimentale, by Gustave Flaubert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Calendar
Overview: A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-03
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Late August, Early September
Overview: A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-10
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Montreal Stories
Overview: Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-11-08
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Stone Time Touch
Overview: Stone, Time, Touch is a documentary made by Gariné Torossian about the relationship of three Armenian women from the diaspora with the land of Armenia. The young woman (played by Kamee Abrahamian) is visiting Armenia for the first time. The older woman, Arsinée Khanjian has a more conflicted and analytical perspective of her identity and her relationship with the fledgling democracy, one of the former Soviet Union republics. She has been to landlocked Armenia many times and comments on photos taken by French photographer Marc Baguelin. The third trajectory is more subtle and is represented by Gariné Torossian herself whose face is super imposed from time to time in this stylistically-layered documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-23
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Speaking Parts
Overview: Hotel employee Lisa develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance, a struggling actor who has appeared in several films as an extra.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-29
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The Cut
Overview: In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-16
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Eden
Overview: Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-19
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A Portrait of Arshile
Overview: Egoyan juxtaposes home-video images of his son Arshile with a self-portrait of the famed Armenian artist, Arshile Gorky; Egoyan narrates in English, while his wife narrates in Armenian. The self-portrait made from a photo of the artist as a child at the time of the great massacre of the Armenians is used as a focus for meditations on the nature of self-awareness, artistic expression, and the relationship between the artist and the viewer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Sarabande
Overview: The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-24
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Atlit
Overview: In October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions arise between elders Darel and Cali when Darel proves unwilling to sell. That's when the sisters start seeing apparitions of their dead parents.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-21
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Ms. Scrooge
Overview: Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-10
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Hokees
Overview: Anahida, a contemporary Armenian woman, is pregnant with the child of her Turkish lover who is haunted by the past. An artistic blending of the real and unreal, the past and present are tightly woven into emotionally visual experience. In Armenian, Hokees literally means "soul" or "spirit."
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Original Language: en
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The Adjuster
Overview: An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-27
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Nobody Else But You
Overview: The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's will he unwittingly, but irresistibly, gets caught in the tangled web of murder and small town politics in this off-beat mystery.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-01-12
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Next of Kin
Overview: Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all day, the family goes to a clinic where a therapist videotapes them. After Peter watches his tape, he views the tape of a troubled Armenian family, who gave their only son away for adoption when they arrived in Canada. Peter decides to visit this family, and he pretends to be their son, Bedros Deryan. The Deryan family welcomes him with open arms, and Peter tries to patch up the poor relationship between George Deryan and his daughter Azah.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-30
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The Captive
Overview: Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-05
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Code Unknown
Overview: A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-15
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Lost in Armenia
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-06-08
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The Other Side of November
Overview: Who would you be today if, a few years ago, you had not chosen the path you took? Another person, in another life. Completely, definitely, irrevocably.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-10-09
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Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Overview: This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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We Are Gold
Overview: Ten years after the tragic death of her parents in a mining disaster, Marianne returns to her hometown. She returns to GOLD, the rock band formed by her childhood friends, Kristoff and Kevin, who is the only survivor of the mining collapse. For GOLD's short-lived trio, commemorative week will slowly drag them into shocking and confusing areas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-29
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Guest of Honour
Overview: Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting out of the bounds of good behavior as the past haunts them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-09
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Tenderness
Overview: It's the first time Adrien is entering a homosexual sauna. In the space of one night, he discovers this microcosm where the comic aspect of the individual tragedies encounters the passing of time and where hope mingles with melancholy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-10
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Family Viewing
Overview: An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-09
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The Sweet Hereafter
Overview: A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-25
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Citadel
Overview: A documentary about a journey to Beirut
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-03
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The Box of Sun
Overview: In this silent, surrealist fantasy, thick clouds in a scorched sky prevent the sun from reaching the earth. Only a group of children in this gray world have access to a source of light which is in the wintry woods. They collect it into small boxes that they use to revive people imprisoned in pictures. A young woman grieving for her lost lover goes in search of these children so that they can bring her beloved back to life.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-09-11
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Chickpeas
Overview: Raffi, Paul and Ohan grew up together in war-torn Beirut. Ten years later, we find the childhood friends in Hollywood, caught up in a tougher struggle: the pursuit of the American dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Bloodless: The Path to Democracy
Overview: In the course of history, only a few revolutions have been successful, let alone those without Bloodshed. Nikol Pashinyan, a charismatic former journalist and political prisoner, galvanized support among the youth and women, by using non-violent civil disobedience protests and social media. In a short period of 6 weeks, a corrupt oligarchy was toppled and democracy restored. Deemed short of a miracle, BLOODLESS is a riveting political thriller, capturing the story as events unfold in the spring of 2018 in Armenia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-10
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In Passing
Overview: A visitor to a conference in Montreal arrives at the airport and has a strange experience with the customs officer. Short film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, as part of the Montreal vu par... anthology.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-11-08
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