Harutyun Khachatryan (Armenian: Հարություն Ռուբենի Խաչատրյան, Russian: Арутюн Рубенович Хачатрян; born 9 January 1955) is an Armenian film director, script writer, director of photography, film producer, General director of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival, Meritorious Artist of the Republic of Armenia and voting Member of European Film Academy since 2006.

Harutyun Khachatryan was born on January 9, 1955, in Akhalkalak (Georgian SSR, now Georgia).

1981 the future director graduated from the Film Department of Cultural Faculty of the Armenian State Pedagogical Institute in Yerevan, Armenia.

2008 – Awarded by the Medal of “Movses Khorenatsi” by Armenian Government 2008 – Awarded by CHEVALIER DE L’Ordre des Arts et de Lettres by Ministry of Culture and Communications of French Republic.

"Border" was nominated for the Nika Best foreign film award.