Born in 1941 in Nagorno-Karabakh. A graduate of the Cinema School of the Kyiv State Theatre Institute with a diploma of a film director in 1969, Balayan has since been living and working in Kyiv and Moscow as a film director, scriptwriter and producer.
FILMOGRAPHY
1969 Thief (Vor) – short
1973 Effekt Romashkina – TV Movie
1975 Kashtanka – TV Movie
1978 Lone Wolf (Biryuk)
1983 Flights in Dreams and in Reality (Polyoty vo sne i nayavu)
1983 The Kiss (Potseluy) – ТВ филм
1986 Guard Me, My Talisman (Khrani menya, moy talisman)
1988 The Spy (Filyor)
1989 Lady Macbeth of Mitsensk District (Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda)
1995 The First Love (...Pervaya lyubov)
1998 Two Moons, Three Suns (Dve luny, tri solntsa)
1998 A Night at Parajanov Museum (Noch v muzee Parajanova)
2005 The Night is Bright (Noch svetla)
2008 Birds of Paradise (Rayskie pritsy)