Calendar Armenia / Canada / Germany
1993, 75min.
Producers: Atom Egoyan, Arsinee Khanjian, Director: Atom Egoyan, Script: Atom Egoyan, Director of Photography: Norayr Kasper, Music: Djivan Gasparian, Eve Egoyan, Garo Chaliguian, Hovhanness Tarpinian, Sound: Steven Munro, Editor: Atom Egoyan
Cast: Arsinee Khanjian, Ashot Adamian, Atom Egoyan.
A Toronto photographer invites a different woman to have dinner with him each month. At the end of each meal, the guest makes a phone call to her lover and speaks passionately in a foreign language. The photographer's reveries reveal that his wife has left him for the man who guided their tour in Armenia, where they collected images for a calendar.
Production Company
Ego Film Arts, with participation of ZDF German Television and the Armenian National Cinemateque
| Egoyan, Atom Atom Egoyan (born 1960, Cairo, Egypt)
Born in 1960 in Cairo to Armenian parents, he was raised in Western Canada. Studied International Relations and Music at the University of Toronto where he began making short films. He won attention at the Sundance FF for earlier work, then broke through critically and commercially with The Sweet Hereafter (1997). Three time Cannes IFF winner and the best, since Sergei Parajanov, filmmaker of Armenian ethnicity, Oscar-nominated master of cinema, has collected four awards from the Toronto IFF. A seven-time recipient of Canada's top Genie Awards, he is one of the most remarkable figures of contemporary independent filmmaking. Returned to his ethnic "homeland" when he filmed Calendar (1993) in Armenia. Winner, Golden Apricot Award for Ararat at 1st Yerevan IFF (2004). In 2010 Egoyan was the president of Cinefondation and Short Films Jury at Festival de Cannes.
Filmography
Lust of a Eunuch (1977), Howard in Particular (1979), After Grad with Dad (1980), Peep Show (1981), Open House (1982), Next of Kin (1984), In This Corner (1985, TV), Men: A Passion Playground (1985), Family Viewing (1987), Cupid’s Quiver (1987, TV), The Last Twist (1987, TV), Looking for Nothing (1988), There Was a Little Girl (1988, TV), The Wall (1989, TV), Speaking Parts (1989), The Adjuster (1991), Montreal vu par… Six variations sur une theme (segment "En passant", 1993), Calendar (1993), Gross Misconduct (1993, TV), Exotica (1994), A Portrait of Arshile (1995), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Bach Cello Suite #4: Sarabande (1997, TV), Felicia’s Journey (1999), The Line (2000), Krapp's Last Tape (2000), Diaspora (2001), Ararat (2002), Where The Truth Lies (2005), Citadel (2006), Chacun son cinema (segment “Artaud Double Bill, 2007), Adoration (2008), Chloe (2009)
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