Tigran Khzmalyan was born in 1963 in Yerevan. Khzmalyan's father, Eduard, was a construction engineer, who worked on several historically important buildings in Yerevan, including the Moscow Cinema.[1]
Between 1988 and 1990, Khzmalyan was a participant in the Karabakh movement for the unification of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia. Between 1991 and 1993, he worked as a war correspondent for Armenian and international media in Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as an information assistant to the chairman of the Nagorno-Karabakh Supreme Council, Georgi Petrosian. Between 1993 and 1996, he worked as a political analyst for the Armenian Assembly of America, a lobby group of the Armenian diaspora in Washington, D.C. Between 1997 and 1998, he was appointed a deputy director of UNDP in Armenia. Between 1998 and 2005, he was the general manager of Yerevan Film Studio. In 2009, together with Jirair Sefilian and Alexander Yenikomshian, Khzmalyan founded the Sardarapat Movement.
In early 2012, Khzmalyan was one of the leaders of the Mashtots Park Movement. Since 2014, he quit his cooperation with the Sardarapat Movement due to disagreements on the role of Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian War and in regional developments. Khzmalyan held an anti-Kremlin position, claiming that Vladimir Putin and his KGB regime had annihilated Armenian statehood and colonized Armenia. In 2016, he joined veteran dissident Paruyr Hayrikyan in a pro-Western political movement, called Independence. He underwent three trials on accusations of disobedience to the police during public rallies in 2012, 2014 and 2015. Being extremely critical of Russia's influence on Armenia and its state apparatus, Khzmalyan repeatedly assessed Russo-Armenian relations as colonial, and Armenia is seen by Khzmalyan as a de facto occupied country.[10][11][12]
On 6 November 2018, Tigran Khzmalyan along with his supporters, established the European Party of Armenia (EPA), being elected as the party's chairman.[13][14]
On 10 May 2021, Khzmalyan announced that the European Party of Armenia is leaving the National Democratic Pole alliance, and that the party would participate in the 2021 Armenian parliamentary elections independently.
Khzmalyan is known for his vigorous support of Ukraine in the ongoing war with Russia. On 24 February 2022, when Russia started a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Khzmalyan and members of European Party of Armenia held an anti-war rally near the Russian Embassy in Yerevan.[17] In 2023, he and Armenian singer-songwriter Ruben Hakhverdyan, visited Kyiv and held a concert to collect donations for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.[18]
Khzmalyan serves as the chair of the Board of Trustees of PanEuropa Armenia, the Armenian branch of the Paneuropean Union which was founded in September 2023.[20]
Khzmalyan is married to Narine Mirzoyan, PhD in medicine, Head of Department of Pharmacology at the Yerevan State Medical University. The couple has two children.[23]
Khzmalyan speaks Armenian, Russian, English, and French.
1997 – Second Prize of the Regensburg Short Film Festival for the film Black and White
1998 – Prize for Best Short Film at the Kinoshock Film Festival for the film Black and White
2000 – Special Jury Prize of the Yalta International Telefilm Forum for the film The Death of the King
2001 – Jury Prize “For Professional Directing” at the Istanbul International Film Festival; Film Critics’ Award Magic of Cinema at the Listapad International Film Festival; CIS Special Award and Best Actor Award (Vladimir Msryan) at the Kinoshock Film Festival – for the film Pierlequin, or Lighter than Air
2005 – Award for Best Multimedia Project at the Bahrain–Tunisia Multimedia Competition for the film TheAge of Aram Khachaturian
2009 – Golden Diploma for Best Film about Architecture and Architects at the 17th International Festival Zodchestvo-2009 of the Union of Architects of Russia for the film TheYerevan's Main Mistery
↑ՀՈՎՀԱՆՆԻՍՅԱՆ, Ռոզա (28 March 2024). "Aravot". «Ըստ Սահմանադրության՝ որեւէ վերպետական կառույցի անդամակցելու եւ ՀՀ տարածքի փոփոխության համար անհրաժեշտ է անցկացնել հանրաքվե»․ Խզմալյան.
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