Arsinée Khanjian Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Muse and wife of director Atom Egoyan, Arsinee Khanjian has managed to appear in all of the filmmaker's projects without being typecast into narrow, predictable roles. Bearing the kind of strong, dark features that lend themselves to her portrayals of enigmatic women of character, Khanjian has...Read More

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Adoration

Actors: Arsinée Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Noam Jenkins, Devon Bostick, Kenneth Welsh, Noam Blanchard

Synopsis: Director Atom Egoyan explores the concept of cyberspace as a place for redemption in this drama about an adolescent boy named Simon (Devon Bostick) who reinvents his life on the internet. Before long, Simon's deeply personal journey provokes strong reactions from around the globe. Rachel Blanchard Read More

2008
The Lark Farm

Actors: Paz Vega, Arsinée Khanjian, Tchéky Karyo, Moritz Bleibtreu, Mohammad Bakri

Synopsis: As adapted from the roman by Antonia Arslan and co-directed by legendary Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, The Lark Farm marks one of the few international features to tackle the Armenian genocide head-on. The story (with its thematic parallels, in the early scenes, to De Sica's Read More

2007
Sabah

Actors: Arsinée Khanjian, Shawn Doyle, Setta Keshishian, Roula Said, Fadia Nadda

Synopsis: When a devout, forty year old Muslim woman from a traditional family falls in love with a handsome Canadian man, the stress of balancing her secret romance with her highly demanding family life gradually begins to take a heavy emotional toll. As a young girl, Sabah (Arsinée Khanjan) was always Read More

2005
Ararat

Actors: David Alpay, Charles Aznavour, Eric Bogosian, Brent Carver, Marie-Josée Croze

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan explores his Armenian heritage, and how the country's tragic history has touched several generations of the nation's expatriates, in this ambitious drama. Edward Saroyan (Charles Aznavour), a veteran filmmaker of Armenian descent, is in Toronto shooting a film about Read More

11/15/02
Fat Girl

Actors: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero de Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian, Romain Goupil

Synopsis: Director Catherine Breillat, who courted international controversy with her film Romance, once again pushed the envelope with this disturbing (if somewhat less explicit) look at adolescent sexuality. Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux) is a 12-year-old girl with a weight problem and a downbeat disposition Read More

3/7/01
Foreign Objects [TV Series]

Actors: Ken Finkleman, Colm Feore, Arsinée Khanjian, Larissa Laskin, Karen Hines

Synopsis: This six-part Canadian TV anthology (actually telecast in three parts) was founded on the theme of human frailty. The stories, largely based on famous literary works, were linked together by the activities of documentary filmmaker George (Ken Finkelman, who also wrote and directed the series). Read More

2001
Felicia's Journey

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée Khanjian, Peter McDonald, Gerard McSorley

Synopsis: Directed by Atom Egoyan, Felicia's Journey is a low-key psychological thriller about the relationship between a lovesick young woman and an older man with an ugly secret. Felicia (Elaine Cassidy) has lived all of her life in a small village in rural Ireland. She has fallen in love with a boy named Read More

11/12/99
Late August, Early September

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen, François Cluzet, Jeanne Balibar, Alex Descas, Arsinée Khanjian

Synopsis: Olivier Assayas directed this French drama, examining several relationships over a year's span, capturing varying textures and shades of feeling between people from late August of one year until early September of the next. Gabriel (Mathieu Amalric) and Jenny (Jeanne Balibar) separate, despite the Read More

8/20/99
Ms. Scrooge

Actors: Cicely Tyson, Katherine Helmond, Michael Beach, John Bourgeois, Rae'Ven Larrymore-Kelly

Synopsis: In 1974, Cicely Tyson and director John Korty (The Ewok Adventure) worked together on the acclaimed The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (winner of nine Emmys), and they reteamed for this updating of Charles Dickens' 1843 classic, A Christmas Carol. When miserly banker Ebenita Scrooge (Tyson) is Read More

1997
Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach: Sarabande

Actors: Yo-Yo Ma, Lori Singer, Arsinée Khanjian, Don McKellar, George Sperdakos, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: Quirky Canadian director Atom Egoyan helmed this, the only fictional entry in a series of six films, titled "Yo-Yo Ma Inspired Bach." The story centers on the world-renowned cellist and is a free-form series of unrelated connections between people. As the story begins, Ma is flying to Toronto via Read More

1997
The Sweet Hereafter

Actors: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Gabrielle Rose

Synopsis: Atom Egoyan's haunting adaptation of the Russell Banks novel The Sweet Hereafter was the Canadian filmmaker's most successful film to date, taking home a Special Grand Jury Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and scoring a pair of Academy Award nominations, including Best Director. Restructured Read More

1997
Irma Vep

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler

Synopsis: Written and directed by Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep tells the story of has-been French filmmaker René Vidal (Jean-Pierre Léaud). In an attempt to reinvigorate his career, Vidal decides to remake Les Vampires, the classic silent serial featuring the adventures of jewel thief Irma Vep. Playing Read More

11/13/96
Exotica

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Don McKellar, Arsinée Khanjian, Elias Koteas, Sarah Polley, Victor Garber

Synopsis: The action in Canadian provocateur Atom Egoyan's cryptic Exotica revolves largely around the strip club, which lends the film its name, a faux-tropical hothouse where young female dancers cater to their customers' sexual and psychological needs. Among the regulars is Francis (Bruce Greenwood), a Read More

1994
Calendar

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Arsinée Khanjian, Atom Egoyan

Synopsis: Atom Egoyan casts himself as the lead character in Calendar. He portrays a shutterbug who brings an array of different women to his apartment. Every time one of the women makes a phone call, the character notices a calendar consisting of photographs he took while in Armenia. The film flashes back Read More

1993
The Adjuster

Actors: Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose, Jennifer Dale

Synopsis: Written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, The Adjuster is an examination of the sexual quirks of a married couple. Starring such Egoyan regulars as Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, and Don McKellar, the film focuses on Noah Render (Koteas), an insurance adjuster who Read More

5/29/92
Chickpeas

Actors: Arsinée Khanjian

Synopsis: The three lads and their girlfriends in this film are members of Los Angeles' Armenian community. They came to the U.S. by way of Lebanon, as did many others. Like other immigrant children, they face difficulties in reconciling their older relatives' old-country ways with the need to adapt to and Read More

1992
Speaking Parts

Actors: Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose, David Hemblen, Patricia Collins

Synopsis: "In my films, you're always encouraged to remember that you're watching a collection of designed images." Thus spake Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan in describing his calculatedly non-realistic style. In keeping with his earlier works, Egoyan's Speaking Parts, though grounded in reality, could Read More

1989
La Boite à Soleil

Actors: Joseph Champagne, Arsinée Khanjian, Simon Esterez, Barbara Easton, Atom Egoyan

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Lefebvre's direction is apparent in this symbolic, avant garde film. An elderly man sits in a chair in a snow-covered woods. Children cut out colorful pictures from magazines that later become animated. A woman in a black veil wheels a baby carriage to the sea. The old man gives a Read More

1988
Family Viewing

Actors: David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose, Arsinée Khanjian, Selma Keklikian

Synopsis: Ignore the title: Family Viewing makes for fascinating viewing, though it is not designed as entertainment for the whole family. This Canadian film stars David Hemblen as Stan, a profoundly disturbed young man. Upon the disappearance of his mother, Stan feverishly tries to piece together existing Read More

1987
Next of Kin

Actors: Patrick Tierney, Sirvant Fazlian, Arsinée Khanjian, Margaret Loveys, Thomas Tierney

Synopsis: Atom Egoyan's first feature finds him using the formal and thematic elements he has combined throughout his career: allegory, family bonds, the corruption of desire, and a perverse view of technology. In the midst of a familial trauma, a young man discovers a videotape of a family who gave up a Read More

1984