Arman Ayvazyan is a director, documentarian, and film editor based in Armenia. He studied directing at the Armenian State Pedagogical University and later enrolled at VGIK (Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography), where he spent five years specializing in documentary filmmaking.
His student films, "The Gull" and "Stones," achieved great success and received multiple international awards.
His films have been screened and awarded at numerous international film festivals, including:
VGIK International Student Festival (Russia)
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival (Armenia)
Yerevan Short Film Festival (Armenia)
Artdocfest/Riga (Latvia)
DOKer – Moscow International Documentary Film Festival (Russia)
Window to Europe (Окно в Европу) Film Festival (Russia)
Silver Scad (Серебряная Скопа) Documentary Film Festival (Russia)
Rossia – Russian Documentary Film Festival (РОССИЯ) (Russia)
DOC NYC – America’s Largest Documentary Festival (USA)
Apricot Tree Ujan International Documentary Film Festival (Armenia)
Flaertiana International Documentary Film Festival (Russia)
Saratov Suffering International Film Festival of Documentary Drama (Russia)
Arpa International Film Festival (USA)
Trento Film Festival (Italy)
During the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, he joined the Bars Media studio team as a war journalist, director, and cameraman, documenting the events of the conflict.
While studying in Moscow, he worked as a film editor, assembling films and TV programs for RT Documentary, Pyatnitsa (ПЯТНИЦА), Kultura (КУЛЬТУРА), Spas (СПАС), Zvezda (ЗВЕЗДА), STAR, and Premier TV channels and platforms.
Since 2023, Arman Ayvazyan has been teaching directing and editing at the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinema.
Arman Ayvazyan’s work is distinguished by deep observation, visual poetry, and unique directing and editing techniques.