Arsinée Khanjian

Arsinée Khanjian

Birthday: 1958-09-06

Place of Birth: Beirut, Lebanon

Biography: Arsinée Khanjian (born 1958 in Beirut, Lebanon Արսինէ Խանճեան) is an Armenian-Canadian actress and producer. In addition to her independent work and stage roles, she is regularly cast by her husband, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in his films. She has a bachelor's degree in French and Spanish from Concordia University and a master's degree in political science from the University of Toronto. Her husband, Egoyan, credits her for inspiring him to further explore his Armenian roots. She lives in Toronto with her husband and their son, Arshile. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arsinée Khanjian, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Fat Girl
Fat Girl

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, El...

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The Lark Farm
The Lark Farm

The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looki...

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Exotica
Exotica

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Fran...

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Irma Vep
Irma Vep

Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a re...

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Adoration
Adoration

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story inv...

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Where the Truth Lies
Where the Truth Lies

An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team....

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Sabah
Sabah

One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's not. ...

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Last Night
Last Night

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke o...

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Ararat
Ararat

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making o...

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Felicia's Journey
Felicia's Journey

Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Jo...

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Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education

The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main...

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Calendar
Calendar

A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Tra...

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Late August, Early September
Late August, Early September

A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illn...

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Montreal Stories
Montreal Stories

Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic Fren...

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Stone Time Touch
Stone Time Touch

Stone, Time, Touch is a documentary made by Gariné Torossian about the relationship of three Armenia...

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Speaking Parts
Speaking Parts

Hotel employee Lisa develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance, a struggling actor who has appea...

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The Cut
The Cut

In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and...

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Eden
Eden

Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his fr...

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A Portrait of Arshile
A Portrait of Arshile

Egoyan juxtaposes home-video images of his son Arshile with a self-portrait of the famed Armenian ar...

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Sarabande
Sarabande

The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have ...

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Atlit
Atlit

In October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions arise...

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Ms. Scrooge
Ms. Scrooge

Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge...

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Hokees
Hokees

Anahida, a contemporary Armenian woman, is pregnant with the child of her Turkish lover who is haunt...

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The Adjuster
The Adjuster

An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords....

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Nobody Else But You
Nobody Else But You

The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like f...

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Next of Kin
Next of Kin

Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his...

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The Captive
The Captive

Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that sh...

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Code Unknown
Code Unknown

A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the fil...

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Lost in Armenia
Lost in Armenia

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The Other Side of November
The Other Side of November

Who would you be today if, a few years ago, you had not chosen the path you took? Another person, in...

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Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche

This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadi...

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We Are Gold
We Are Gold

Ten years after the tragic death of her parents in a mining disaster, Marianne returns to her hometo...

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Guest of Honour
Guest of Honour

Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted for. ...

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Tenderness
Tenderness

It's the first time Adrien is entering a homosexual sauna. In the space of one night, he discovers t...

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Family Viewing
Family Viewing

An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society...

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The Sweet Hereafter
The Sweet Hereafter

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a doz...

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Citadel
Citadel

A documentary about a journey to Beirut...

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The Box of Sun
The Box of Sun

In this silent, surrealist fantasy, thick clouds in a scorched sky prevent the sun from reaching the...

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Chickpeas
Chickpeas

Raffi, Paul and Ohan grew up together in war-torn Beirut. Ten years later, we find the childhood fri...

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Bloodless: The Path to Democracy
Bloodless: The Path to Democracy

In the course of history, only a few revolutions have been successful, let alone those without Blood...

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In Passing
In Passing

A visitor to a conference in Montreal arrives at the airport and has a strange experience with the c...

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Door Prize
Door Prize

Mars Brito, a trans bike courier, is killed by an SUV. Is he the victim of an accidental 'door prize...

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