mankazar film is a production company by christine haroutounian with a focus on independent armenian cinema and beyond.

named one of filmmaker magazine’s 25 new faces of independent film 2020, haroutounian’s films have received official selection in international film festival rotterdam, ann arbor film festival, palm springs international shortfest, maryland film festival, short waves, and more. her short, world, has been praised by critics as a “strikingly framed and impressionistic meditation on the body, desire, and death” and won the golden apricot stone prize at the golden apricot international film festival in yerevan.

mankazar recently wrapped production on haroutounian’s first feature film.

contact@mankazar.com