In 2008, Aviva Barkhourdarian and Norik Keshishian founded nurfilm in Berlin, a film production company, in order to realize their common film projects. nurfilm develops and produces art-house movies with socio-political issues.

Furthermore, nurfilm intends to prepare the basis for international co-productions with Armenia, and therefore cares especially to develop contacts with Armenian filmmakers. The company works closely with the Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Armenia.