David Safarian

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Place of Birth Yerevan, Armenia

Also Known As David Safaryan

David Safarian

Biography

David Safarian was born in Yerevan in 1952. He graduated from Fine Arts and Drama Academy in Yerevan in 1975. From 1972 to 1978 worked as an actor at the State TV Theatre in Yerevan, and as an assistant director and director at Armenian Documentary Film Studio. He graduated from Film Academy - VGIK in Moscow in 1983. Since then he is a director at "Armenfilm" Studios. In 1991 Safarian had Special Screenings of his films in Cinematheque Francaise in Paris. Since 1991 he is a member of the General Assembly of Cinematheque Francaise. From 1995 to 2001 he shot series of short documentaries about Armenian Culture and History on German TV (ORB/RBB). In 1996 he had a retrospective of films in Cinematheque Francaise at the 60th Anniversary of the Cinematheque in Paris and in 1999 One-Week Screenings of Selected Films in Berlin. In 2001 and 2002 he was a Guest-Professor at the Film and TV Department in the University of Kassel, Germany, and from 2003 to 2007 he worked as a professor co-heading the Film and TV Department at the same University. In 2002 David Safarian founded "Studio DS" - Film Production and Art Development Fund.

Known For

Director

2017
Champion

as Director

2016
2015
28:94 Local Time

as Director

2002
Expectation

as Director

2002
Lullaby

as Director

1991
Lost Paradise

as Director

1990
Warmth-sickness

as Director

1988
Devotion

as Director

1987
Garnanamouth

as Director

1985
The Forest

as Director

1982
The Doctor

as Director

1976
My Sky, My Land

as Director

1975
Vocation

as Director

Writer

2017
Champion

as Writer

2015
2002
Expectation

as Writer

1990
Warmth-sickness

as Writer

1987
Garnanamouth

as Writer

1975
Vocation

as Writer