Calendar
1993 · Movie · 74 min · ★ 6.3 · 95% critics
A photographer travels through Armenia with his wife and a local guide to capture churches for a calendar. As the trip continues, the project becomes a quiet study of growing emotional distance, memory, and a lingering sense of disconnection from both a relationship and a cultural homeland.
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Details
- Years
- 1993
- Release date
- 1993-06-03
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 74 min
- Critic score
- 95/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (34 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy quiet, reflective relationship dramas with repetition, cultural identity themes, and an art-house mood in the vein of Walking and Talking or Tulpan; Not for you if you want a fast, plot-heavy story.
Pros: beautiful Armenian locations; thoughtful and funny moments; rich emotional themes | Cons: very slow pacing; repetitive structure; feels distant or incomplete
Themes
- identity
- photography
- family relationships
- ruins
- churches
Awards & recognition
- Canadian Screen Award — Best Screenplay · 1993 · nominated
Cast & crew
Arsinée Khanjian
as Translator
Ashot Adamyan
as Driver
Atom Egoyan
as Photographer
- MB
Michelle Bellerose
as Guest
- NJ
Natalia Jasen
as Guest
Susan Hamann
as Guest
- SK
Sveta Kohli
as Guest
- VT
Viva Tsvetnova
as Guest
- RS
Roula Said
as Guest
- AS
Annie Szamosi
as Guest
Directed by Atom Egoyan