Gariné Torossian

Who is Gariné Torossian?

Gariné Torossian is an Armenian-Canadian filmmaker. Her works include Stone, Time, Touch which won best documentary at the Warsaw International Film Festival in 2007. Her films have screened at MoMa, the Telluride Film Festival, Lux Cinema, the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Warsaw International Film Festival, Berlinale, and a host of cinematheques, including those in Berlin, Edmonton, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Her debut short, VISIONS, was part of a retrospective at Centre Pompidou when she was 22. Her subsequent shorts were screened at New York Museum of Modern Art Cineprobe when she was 25. Torossian's work has been broadcast on Arte France, Documentary Channel, Bravo Canada, Sundance Channel, SBS and WTN. Her films focus on notions of memory, longing and identity, underlined by her diverse and comprehensive filmography.