Aren Malakyan was born in 1991 in Vanadzor, Armenia. In 2015 he graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography, Faculty of Feature Films. His graduation film Girl On The Moon (2014) received the prize of the President of Republic of Armenia in 2015, as well as several prizes at international film festivals. Since then, Aren has directed e.g. the short film Snow (2016) that had its international premiere at Shanghai International Film Festival. In 2018, he co-founded, together with Vahagn Khachatryan, the film production company Oolik Production. He is currently working on his second feature film.
