Parajanov-Vartanov Institute

01/09/2026

On Sergei Parajanov’s 102nd birthday today read the poems of Sayat Nova and watch the masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates. Parajanov-Vartanov Institute

10/03/2025

Sergei Parajanov’s lost 1952 student film (remade as Andriesh in 1954) has been found at Moscow’s Film Institute V.G.I.K.

03/30/2025

Parajanov-Vartanov Institute’s Martiros M. Vartanov introduces Mikhail Vartanov’s “Sergei Parajanov: The Last Spring” at National Gallery of Art in Washington

01/09/2025

Sergei Parajanov poses for Mikhail Vartanov’s movie camera during the making of their 1969 films The Color of Pomegranates + The Color of Armenian Land. Watch them on The Criterion Collection in honor of Parajanov’s 101st birthday today. Parajanov-Vartanov Institute

04/22/2024

Thanks The Academy for the unforgettable premiere at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures of UCLA Film & Television Archive's restoration of Mikhail Vartanov's Parajanov: The Last Spring and Cineteca di Bologna's restoration of Sergei Parajanov's The Color of Pomegranates + Q&A with Martiros M. Vartanov & Adam Piron

Ahead of the Academy Museum's screening of 'Parajanov: The Last Spring' and 'The Color of Pomegranates,' A.frame looks back on the legacy of brothers-in-arts Mikhail Vartanov and Sergei Parajanov.

01/09/2024

Sergei Parajanov
1924 ❤️ 2024

01/09/2024

100 years of Sergei Parajanov ❤️ 1924-2024

01/09/2023

Sergei Parajanov ❤️ 99 on January 9

12/02/2022

Sergei Parajanov’s The Color of Pomegranates, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov, is on the Greatest Films of All Time Directors Poll in BFI Sight and Sound: parajanov.com/news