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Well-known Armenian film director Maria Sahakyan has died at the age of 37, Russian film critic and historian of cinema Andrey Plakhov wrote on Facebook.

"Cancer killed her. It is impossible to believe in the death of that beautiful 37-year-old woman," he wrote.
To note, Maria was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1980.In 1992, she and her family moved to Russia. In 1996, she gained entrance to the film directing and animation department of Moscow All-Russian University of Cinematography (VGIK), Vladimir Kobrin's workshop. In 2000 - 03, she made a series of mini-films for a multimedia encyclopedia about WWII and a few experimental short films.

Maria graduated in 2003 with a degree project The Farewell, which was premiered at Rotterdam IFF in Europe and Telluride IFF in USA. In 2007-08, Maria started developing the project Gumry 1946, which is telling personal stories from Armenian people and also started writing the script of "I'm Going To Change My Name," which received "The Best feature film 2013" Armenian National Cinema Award and number of other awards at the international film festivals.