
Atom Egoyan
Directing
Born: 1960-07-19 · Cairo, United Arab Republic [now Egypt]
Biography
Atom Egoyan CC (/ɛˈɡɔɪən/; Armenian: Ատոմ Եղոյեան, romanized: Atom Yeghoyan; born July 19, 1960) is an Armenian-Canadian filmmaker. One of the most preeminent directors of the Toronto New Wave, he emerged during the 1980s and made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a hyperlink film set in a strip club. He followed this with his most critically acclaimed film, The Sweet Hereafter (1997), an adaptation of the Russell Banks novel of the same name, for which he received Academy Award nomin
🎬 Movies (30)

Seven Veils
2025
Director

"I Will Revenge This World With Love" - S. Paradjanov
2024
Himself

Viva Varda!
2023
Self
Talking Heads 2021
2021
Self

Guest of Honour
2020
Director

Mouthpiece
2019
Thanks

Le cri du rhinocéros
2018
Self

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017
Thanks
Missing
2016

Sculpting Memory
2015

Remember
2015
Director

The Captive
2014
Director

Rewind This!
2013
Self

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Director

Devil's Knot
2013
Director

Invisible World
2013
Director

The Rep - A Documentary
2012
Himself

Stories We Tell
2012
Thanks

Barney's Version
2010
O'Malley Director #1

Chloe
2010
Director

It Came from Kuchar
2009
Self

Adoration
2009
Director

To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Director

Away from Her
2007
Executive Producer

This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006
Self - Director of 'Where the Truth lies'
Citadel
2006
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Where the Truth Lies
2005
Director

Mouth to Mouth
2005
Executive Producer

Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
2004
Self

Childstar
2004
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