Artur Chaparyan: 199 (2022)

Best of Stand-up 2020

Unnecessary milk substitutes. Bad passwords. Burlap underpants. 2020 may have sucked, but thankfully the jokes didn't.

The Art of Protest

Welcome to a never-before-seen tour of the creations by resistance artists around the world. From the streets of Moscow to the shores of Los Angeles and featuring interviews with Tom Morello, Dave Navarro, Moby, Shepard Fairey, and more, this powerful film brings a message of hope and change through radical resistance and righteous social uprising.

Wee Wee Monsieur

The Stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the French Foreign Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to guard captain Gorgonzola from the natives. When the captain is kidnapped, the boys must disguise themselves as harem girls to infiltrate the chieftains hideout and rescue him.

Songbird

Rose, a girl suffering from Agoraphobia (the fear of the outside) is forced to leave her safe place when her pet songbird ‘Lucy’ escapes her cage

Singsot

After hearing a mythical story from his grandmother, a boy experiences terrifying events at his grandparents’ house, uncovering a hidden truth that makes him vow never to whistle again.

Dying at a Hospital

Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.

The Malay Regiment

Based on the real-life events of Ops Kota Gubir I and II, where security teams from the 17 RAMD unit have ambushed several communist camps at the border of Thai-Malaysia, near Gubir, Kedah.

Alice Rouba Memórias

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The Last Shot

When a forgotten director gets the chance to make his historical film, creative visions clash when the producer considers turning it into erotica.

Apple of My Eye

A girl who wishes for a traditional relationship free from technology finds love in a boy who happens to be a web developer. Will the boy bow down to the girl’s tech free whim or will the girl embrace the very thing she vowed to avoid?

Fasad

Aksa & Asha is a ideal couple on social media. When Asha wants to be a mother, Aksa disagrees because the child Asha is carrying will damage their image.

Hasan Boğuldu

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Sky of Love

Xiao Jia, a university student, secretly admires her class monitor, Wen Tao. In a twist of an event, Xiao Jia accidentally gets hold of a radiophone. One day, as she daydreams of Wen Tao, the radiophone connects to Jia Hui and they start communicating through the radiophone. From their conversations, they discover that they are actually studying in the same school and plan to meet up, but both of them miss the date and finally find out that they exist in two different worlds.

The Inland Sea

In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan’s Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie’s by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and meeting people who still carried on the fading customs that Richie had observed. Interspersed with surprising detours—a visit to a Frank Sinatra-loving monk, a leper colony, an ersatz temple of plywood and plaster—and woven together by Richie’s narration as well as a score by celebrated composer Toru Takemitsu, The Inland Sea is an eye-opening voyage and a profound meditation on what it means to be a foreigner.

Kaka Pardhan

Kaka Pardhan revolves around two characters that came to the city side to become Gangsters and how they actually ruled over the Gangsters of that city.

All Happy Families

The Landrys are blindsided by news of their son's behavior, and must rally to find their way amidst comical family dysfunction.