AygeparArmenia
2006, 24min.
 Script: Tigran Paskevichyan, Dir.: Ara Shirinyan, Dir. of Phot.: Suren Ter-Karapetyan, Edit.: Tigran Karapetyan, Prod.: Satenik Faramazyan.
The film is comprised of twin documentaries that tell the story of two next-door villages: Aygepar in Armenia, and Alibeyli in Azerbaijan. Up until the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict, the inhabitants of the villages depicted in the documentaries enjoyed normal relations, with interpersonal, interfamilial, and economic ties. Those ties were abruptly and tragically broken by the war. Former friends and associates were drawn into the hostilities, often unaware of the damage that their bullets and bombs caused to their neighbors on the other side of the border. Twelve years into the cease-fire, the inhabitants of both villages pause to reflect on friendship and enmity, war and peace, and the possibility of a clean slate leading to coexistence. | Shirinyan, Ara  Born 1957, Yerevan.
He graduated from the Film Directing Department of Yerevan Pedagogical Institute. From 1982 to 1996 he worked at the State TV of Armenia. He currently works at “Shoghakat” TV Company. He attended the UNESCO International TV Broadcaster’s Workshop, KBS, Seoul (South Korea), 1994. Participated in the AED program of Support for Investigative Jornalism, Washington, DC, 2000. He attended the UNESCO TV Documentary Production Workshop, KBS, Seoul (South Korea), 2004. Member of “Investigative Journalists” NGO, Versus Film Studio.Along with filmmaking since 1995 he has been lecturing to students at the Department of Journalism of Yerevan State University.
Filmography
Demontage (1999), Human Rights in Armenia (2000), Outcasts (2000), Mystery of Minas (2001), Lethal Toys (2004), Switch (2005).
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