Kamee abrahamian
film portfolio
The Pomegranate Trees
Narrative (2026) 11 mins ~ director, writer, producer
A young, skeptical boy follows his uncle’s quixotic dream of planting a pomegranate orchard in the dust of a desolate acreage. Film adaptation of Wiliam Saroyan's short story, "The Pomegranate Trees." Festival dates TBD.

“Abrahamian blends vulnerability and a community-bred formidableness.”
INDIE SHORTS MAG
Symptom
Documentary (2024) 23 mins ~ director, producer, editor
Embodying the dreams and poetics of a post-Soviet generation, two young Armenian women share their politics of justice and feminism with the world through their music.
Made in collaboration with Oolik Productions (Armenia). Recipient of the Canada Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council Media Arts Grants. Premiered at the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (2024).


“...rings out like a prayer, the whole sequence is mapped in reverie.”
LILLY TOROSYAN, TORONTOHYE
Ensouled
Outfest Fusion: Los Angeles, CA
Seattle Queer Film Festival: Seattle, WA
Pomegranate Film Festival: Toronto, Canada
Germinate by Platform Asia: UK
The Uncertainty Festival: PEC, Ontario
The Enclosed Garden: Vanadzor, Armenia
Developed through the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity Writers Retreat (2021) and County Labs Residency (2023). Recipient of the Canada Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council project grants. Honourable Mention for Best Experimental Film at Pomegranate Film Festival (2024)
“A marvelous work... Smooth, intense, wise, poetic and above all, non-pretentious - all so elegant and profound. An unforgettable work indeed.”
- Anahid Keshishian (UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures)
TRANSMISSION
Narrative (2017) 15 mins ~ director, writer, producer, actor
After a deadly car crash, a queer activist couple are flung into parallel realities and must embark on a search between worlds to find each other again.
The first ever known Armenian science-fiction film. Premiered at BFI Flare. Recipient of the Canada Arts Council Touring Grant.


















“...an insightful coming-of-age story that weaves together complex narratives about ethnicity, gender, family, and survival.”
- Gillian Edevane (EastBay Express)
“…there’s a fearlessness to the performance and its examination of the cultural and corporeal aspects of gender as a continuum.”
- Aram Kouyoumdjian (Winner of Elly Awards for The Farewells and Three Hotels)
Dear Armen
Experimental (2015)11 mins ~ director, producer, writer, actor, editor
Weaving together the voices and struggles of three generations of women and gender nonconforming Armenians, Dear Armen unveils fragmented legacies of gender, sexuality, genocide, and displacement.
Outfest Fusion: Los Angeles, CA
Seattle Queer Film Festival: Seattle, WA
Pomegranate Film Festival: Toronto, Canada
Germinate by Platform Asia: UK
The Uncertainty Festival: PEC, Ontario
The Enclosed Garden: Vanadzor, Armenia
Recipient of the Canada Arts Council and BC Arts Council project and touring grants. Performance text received a Lambda Literary reward for LGBTQ Anthology (2019).
We are out mountains
Narrative Feature (in development) ~ director, writer ~ executive produced by Lilly Wachowski
An activist-turned-assassin joins a clandestine coalition of women revolutionaries to defend their homelands - but as war escalates, she must reckon with the cost of vengeance and the fragile balance between militancy, motherhood, and collective survival.

44 hours
Documentary Film (in development) ~ director, writer, editor
After inheriting a tattered box of Hi-8 tapes shot in Armenia amidst war and Soviet collapse from her largely-absent immigrant father who recently received a terminal diagnosis, a diasporic filmmaker turns the camera toward their tentative healing as they confront the ruptures that shaped them both.

THE SUmmer of the beautiful white horse
Narrative Feature (in development) ~ director, writer
In Depression-era Fresno, an Armenian boy from an immigrant family joins his ambitious uncle in chasing his ill-fated dream of planting a pomegranate orchard on a desolate acreage. The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse is a feature film adaptation that tenderly stitches together a collection of short stories from Pulitzer-Prize and Academy-Award winning Armenian-American author William Saroyan’s most beloved work, My Name is Aram.
desire lines
Narrative Feature (in development) ~ director, writer
Set against a sweltering Montreal summer, two broke best friends hustle between late-night bartending gigs, messy lovers, and the city's after-hours scene while trying to mount an experimental burlesque show of their own - only to discover that their deepest love story has been beside them all along.

anoti es?
Narrative Feature (in development) ~ director, writer
Trapped between her family’s suffocating expectations and a community obsessed with its own survival, a young Armenian-American woman in Glendale seeks an abortion, only to find herself caught in a fanatical pro-life conspiracy that turns the language of love, care, and cultural survival into a weapon. But while those around her brand her a killer, they may have more to fear from her than they realize.












