Anna Melikyan

Biography

Anna Gagikovna Melikyan (Armenian: Աննա Գագիկի Մելիքյան; Russian: А́нна Гаги́ковна Меликя́н; born 8 February 1976, Baku) is an Azerbaijan-Armenian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and TV director/producer, who works in Russia. She is best known for the film "Mermaid" (2008), which received many international and national awards. After her participation at Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, she was listed in the TOP-10 of most perspective film directors by "Variety" magazine. Anna Melikyan was born in Baku (USSR, now Azerbaijan) and grew up in Yerevan (USSR, now Armenia). At the age of 17, she moved to Moscow. In the mid-1990s, Anna Melikyan was a television director, wrote scripts for commercials and television programs, worked in the team of Yevgeny Ginzburg, and participated in the creation of New Year's show programs. In 1998 — he directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the Moscow International film festival. In 2002, she graduated from the directing department of "VGIK" (workshop of S. Solovyov, V. Rubinchik). The first feature film was "Mars", which premiered at the 2004 Berlin film festival. The second feature film "Mermaid" won the "Best Director Award" at the Sund…

Directed

1. Mermaid (2007) — Director
2. About Love. Adults Only (2017) — Director
3. About Love (2015) — Director
4. Star (2014) — Director
5. Fairy (2020) — Director
6. Mars (2004) — Director
7. Tenderness (2020) — Director
8. The Three (2020) — Director
9. Anna's Feelings (2023) — Director
10. Tenderness (2018) — Director
11. I Come To You (2017) — Director
12. A Mood Like That, Bach’s Adagio and Several Episodes from the Life of the girl Lena (2014) — Director
13. 8 (2015) — Director
14. To Be Called For (2000) — Director
15. Diana (2023) — Director
16. Let’s Fly (1999) — Director
17. Double Bass (2002) — Director
18. About Love (2011) — Director
19. About Love 2 (2013) — Director
20. Andante (1998) — Director
21. Curse of the Onassis clan (2004) — Director
22. Andromeda (2024) — Director
23. Diva (2026) — Director
24. Quartet (2016) — Director

Also appeared in

1. I Come To You (2017)