Armand Yervant Tufenkian (b. 1988) is an Armenian filmmaker, artist and writer.

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His debut feature In the Manner of Smoke (2025), a long-form observation of disparate perspectives on forest fires, premiered at Cinéma du Réel where it won the International Award.

Previous films include Accession (2018), which maps an informal network of seed exchange through letter correspondence, and in lightning Agnes (2014), made at an elevation of ten thousand feet in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness of Colorado.

Tufenkian's films have screened internationally at festivals such as the Viennale, Art of the Real at Lincoln Center, Courtisane, Open City, Mar del Plata, Underdox, and as part of the Conscious Landscapes exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje (2019), the Reimagining the Land retrospective at Sheffield Doc/Fest (2020), the Cinema for All Pavilion at the Thailand Biennale (2024), and have been featured in publications such as MUBI Notebook, the Millennium Film Journal and Kathyrn Ramey's book Experimental Filmmaking. 

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His work has been supported recently by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and residencies at Fogo Island Arts, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Monson Arts, and previously by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Puffin Foundation, and City of Chicago's Individual Artist Program.

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He did doctoral studies at Duke University, where he started a dissertation on the poetics of community in cinema, and studied filmmaking at CalArts. Previously he taught in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego and worked as a fire lookout in the Sierra Nevada. He is currently a lecturer in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University (SUNY).

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