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Taxi "Eli lav a" is a feature film, created by 10 famous Armenian film makers. The movie consists of 11 short stories, lasting approximately seven minutes each. "11 life stories" beaded like "pearls" on a "endless thread" called Yerevan. Each story is shot in a definie genre (action, melodrama, thriller, comedy) and differs from the rest by its concept as well as signiture, yet all those stories integrate into a bright mosaic, reflecting nowdays Yerevan

Episode titles:


"3000 years ago"


Directed by Artak Zilfimyan
Written by Lusine Manukyan
Director of photography Artavazd Khachatryan

How was our city over 3000 years ago? What was going on there? What passions was it overwhelmed with?
Is it possible to penetrate through the time and be carried away with the speed of a thought to the period of our city’s establishment, veiled by time and mystery?
Khald the god precepted, that one Urartian is to be born once a millennium, to see his land again on a new page of history. Is vice versa possible? Watch the movie!

"Yerevan flies"


Directed by Armen Ghazaryan
Written by Armen Ghazaryan
Director of photography Ruben Gasparyan

The coming-true of an unrealizable dream is like a triumph over the evil eye! Puttering about the regular pathways, day by day the heroes are wasting their lives in morbid curiosity: the one is spying with a spyglass on his neighbor’s wife cheating on with a routine guy; the other one is eavesdropping through a wall, the third one is… And it is recycling over and over again in the same closed space after the same pattern and often with the same ending. Yet, even in the most regular ant hill there can be a spot for a fly.

"Seven minutes"

Directed by Garik Mashkaryan
Written by Garik Mashkaryan
Director of photography Mkrtich Malkhasyan

In an inevitable chapter of events, there is always time to look back – ten, or at least …seven minutes. The whole seven minutes of unaccounted time! Seven minutes to grasp. Seven minutes to forgive. Seven minutes to confess and manage to win one back.
Because everything is to happen at exact appointed time even during before the very end!

"Yerevan ragtime"


Directed by Aram Shahbazyan
Written by Gnel Nalbandyan
Director of photography Davit Ayvazyan

It is proved that out city is seething! It can stand still in no way. And if you peer at it, you can perceive the shapes of a regular ant hill in that chaotic at first sight and unmeaning motion of its particles.

"The second Sunday of spring"


Directed by Hrant Movsisyan
Written by Harutyun Kbelyan
Director of photography Mkrtich Malkhasyan

An old love that slashed badly the heart seems to be doomed to oblivion. But… It’s possible to understand, to forgive, even to admit one’s guilt, yet hard to make it altogether at the very moment. “I love …” So much can be put instead of these dots. Apparently, the word “too”. But there comes a big, bright, clear and absolutely new Sunday!
Though… Sunday is just a day. But is it a day of a week or a life? You choose!

"Sheko"
Directed by Davit Babayan
Written by Armen Margaryan
Director of photography Mkrtich Malkhasyan

It is almost unbelievable that so many people can be worried for a…
His name is Sheko. She is Suzie…
He is faithful to her like a … dog. She seems to look right through him and that makes him feel lonely as a … dog.
“The house is good, people are not bad too …” –– thinks the kindest, humane old-timer of the block, a homeless dog – Sheko. No one knows who gave him that name, yet everybody call him so. And many turned out to love him.
Even Suzie!


"The title comes later on"


Directed by Avag Avagyan
Written by Avag Avagyan
Director of photography Mkrtich Malkhasyan

Could you paint all your DREAMS on a canvas? The last, the present and the future ones. Guess, is it possible? In no way! You are to paint only one thing: something dearly loved. For instance – a CITY of yours! Yet for making it you should find IT in your own thoughts, memories and dreams! The novel heroine after the long search finds her own Yerevan and her own solution which is as wise, bright and touching as our beloved city.

"The hood"


Directed by Vahe Khachatryan
Written by Vahe Khachatryan
Director of photography Mkrtich Malkhasyan

A light at the end of the tunnel is a mystery exciting the perpetual minds the centuries long. But our hero seemed to figure out this unsolvable problem. But at what cost? A young journalist tries to extort and she seems to clue it. Only coming-up of the inevitable end makes him turn around and make out who he is indeed and who could have killed him for all that!

"You, go!"


Directed by Edgar Baghdasaryan
Written by Edgar Baghdasaryan
Director of photography Ruben Gasparyan

…she is alone in a big city, though tries frankly to go along the rapid stream of drab existence, mediocre people and dull thoughts. Despair, hurt, loneliness - a burden beard by a provincial girl makes her choose to become a… prostitute. But even that system rejects her, granting sometimes a hard-hitting right of choice. The right to hope for and believe in a true love.

"Known and unknown love"

Directed by Hrach Keshishyan
Written by Artak Aleksanyan
Director of photography Artur Apresov

“Up & down! Up & down! Up & down!”
What’s that? Is it a call? Or a new slogan? This is the heart of a city beating in “modern” style! A loud, joyous, bright, but at the same time pragmatic, sometimes even sad life of Yerevan teenagers. Someone’s trying to reach “up”, someone’s trying to win his love back, someone’s constantly “down”. At least he tries to understand why his buddies call him so...
Even though, the movie is about teenagers and it’s really about love!