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OLD FRIENDS is a bittersweet portrayal of trauma, depression, falling in love, getting older, and finding happiness. With no additional crew, Peter Odabashian visits sixteen of his longtime friends who reveal surprising truths to his camera about the paths they chose in life. As we hear their stories, we begin to understand how they helped make Odabashian, the child of Armenian genocide survivors, the "happiest depressed person in the world." OLD FRIENDS is a film of unusual intimacy. It is a loving portrait of kindred spirits, their pain, their joy, and what matters in life.

SOMEWHERE TO BE is an eye-opening look behind the doors of a Greenwich Village senior center that became an unlikely destination for aging, idiosyncratic New Yorkers. Veteran filmmaker Peter Odabashian uses verité, interviews, and an intimate camera style to reveal that it's possible to have a good life if you're able to become part of a community, if you can find somewhere to be.

In 2020, many people died of COVID-19 or lost someone close, but even more of us survived and struggled through one of the strangest years of our lives. "My 2020" is an honest story of a mixed race family as seen through the eyes of an aging filmmaker. It's a film about getting older, sharing a home with grown children, agonizing about Trump and Biden, coming to understand true love, and rediscovering how much we all need each other.