Moscow Int’l Film Festival to feature program on Genocide

In the framework of the 37th Moscow International Film Festival the program "Screen image of the tragedy: on the centennial of the Armenian Genocide," dedicated to the tragedy of the Armenian people will be presented.

The program covers a variety of aspects of current political and humanitarian issues of the Genocide, as shown from the perspective of artists and sociologists of different generations and nationalities, the website of the festival reports.

"In the documentary “Screamers” by Carla Garapedian and Peter McAlevey events of the early 20th century are compared with the relatively recent extermination of entire peoples in Rwanda and Darfur. Classic movies of Soviet cinema by Henrik Malyan ("Nahapet") and Frunze Dovlatyan ("Birth") offer various versions of the formation of the Soviet Armenia, seen through the prism of individual fates of victims of persecutions after their immigration to the Soviet Russia.

The documentary "Saroyanland" tells about the journey of the great American writer in the footsteps of his Armenian ancestors in 1964 in Turkey. The short film "The meeting at the exhibition" by Nerses Hovhannisyan reveals the dramatic destiny manifested in a belated meeting of two brothers, who were separated during the 1915 Genocide. Artak Igityan and Vahan Stepanyan offer some modern look at the events of a century ago and their consequences in the movie "Sunrise over Lake Van.”