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Turkish-Armenian Movie Premiere Held in Ankara

December 24, 2009 Armenia, Film, Turkey No Comments
Turkish-Armenian Movie Premiere Held in Ankara

Ankara’s Büyülü Fener Theater was the venue for an evening hosted by the Turkish-Armenian Business Development Council (TABDC), the Armenian Marketing Association and the United States Embassy in Turkey on Tuesday.

The reason for the event was the premiere of a new film, “Aras Kıyılarında,” or “On the Banks of the Aras,” a joint venture involving all the institutions and organizations mentioned above as well as the US Embassy in Armenia.

Sos Sargsyan: Turks Cannot But Hate Armenians

December 1, 2009 Armenia, Film No Comments
Sos Sargsyan: Turks Cannot But Hate Armenians

People’s Artist Sos Sargsyan is this year celebrating his 80th jubilee. “80 years is an age that makes one responsible for his conduct, thoughts and words,” he told today participants of jubilee celebration.

On the occasion of this jubilee anniversary, merited Armenian artist received congratulations from several public figures.

“Dear Sos Sargsyan, live a long life so as we will have the right to existence,” said Head of Cinematographers’ Union Ruben Gevorgyan.

“Sos Sargsyan is the embodiment of kindness, warmth and humanity,” ran the congratulatory address of composer Martin Vardazaryan.

Holder of numerous titles and awards, actor and director Sos Sargsyan is loved and appreciated by every Armenian.

True believer of Don Quixote’s image, the great actor does not imagine the world without dreamers.

Armenian-Turkish Documentary Features Life and Views on Either Side of River Arax

November 19, 2009 Armenia, Film, Top News No Comments
Armenian-Turkish Documentary Features Life and Views on Either Side of River Arax

joint Armenian-Turkish film telling about life on both sides of the trans-boundary river Arax drew mixed reaction from a Yerevan audience who viewed the film at a crowded Moscow Cinema Tuesday night.

The 30-minute-long semi-documentary, “Arax Banks”, was produced by the Armenian Marketing Association and Turkish-Armenian Business Development Council nongovernmental organizations with assistance from the U.S. embassies in Armenia and Turkey. It attempts to present the opinions about each other of the people, Armenians and Turks, living on the right and left banks of the river separated by a closed border.

In the film the Turkish male character, Araz, and the Armenian female character, Tamar, have a dialogue, deciding to have a reservoir built on the river. Both start to tell each other about their countries and soon learn that they know very little, if anything at all, about each other.

“ReAnimania” Announced The Names Of The Winners

October 7, 2009 Armenia, Film No Comments
“ReAnimania” Announced The Names Of The Winners

“ReAnimania” film festival summed up. The presentations that lasted for 3 days were followed by the election of the winners and presentation to the public.

Today the director of the festival Vrezh Qasuni mentioned that the most difficult part is finished already: “We are sad a bit, and a bit proud that the first festival will be followed by the festival of 2010. We have already started to work over the project of 2010, and we proximately know who will arrive but will not publicize.”

The winners’ names of this year were publicized. The winner of the short-length films is Nick Parki with the film called “Question of bread and death”.

“Magician’s Autumn” An Armenian Movie Is Nominated For Oscar

October 2, 2009 Armenia, Film No Comments
“Magician’s Autumn” An Armenian Movie Is Nominated For Oscar

This year an Armenian movie will be nominated for prestigious Academy Award. As specialist of Contemporary Art of Armenia’s Ministry of Culture Christina Gushchyan told Aysor, Ruben Gevorkyants’s documentary film “Magician’s autumn” will represent Armenia.

Nominated in “Foreign Language Film” category, “Magician’s autumn” is dedicated to the world-famous Italian scriptwriter, playwright, poet, painter, sculptor Tonino Guerra.

Filmed in 2008 under Ruben Gevorkyants’s authorship and Ruben Gevorkyants and his son Vahe Gevorkyants’s directing, “Magician’s autumn” tells about Tonino Guerra’s visit to Armenia, about Armenia’s influence on his creativity.

“To be nominated for Oscar the movie must meet certain requirements, filmed in determined period, using certain facilities, etc.,” says Christina Gushchyan.

“BORDER” Film by Khachatryan is a Success

September 26, 2009 Film, South America, Top News No Comments
“BORDER” Film by Khachatryan is a Success

Montevideo, Uruguay, National Film Center is going to host the retrospective of Harutyun Khachatryan’s films. The retrospective is composed by seven films, H. Khachatryan told at news conference.

It’s worth mentioning that after Moscow performed retrospectives, this is the second largest event organized. The author says the next one is going to be launched in Tbilisi in December.

H. Khachatryan’s “Border” film has been awarded recently two prizes, one as “Platinum” and the second as “Best documentary film”.

“Border” is presented at various international festivals. Note that it’s a film telling about a buffalo passing Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

Source: Panorama Original Article

The 5th youth film festival “It’s me”

September 26, 2009 Armenia, Film No Comments
The 5th youth film festival “It’s me”

The 5th “It’s me” international youth festival will launch on September 26 and will last till September 30, informed Nina Ordoyan the coordinator and director of the film festival, to Aysor.am.

The festival used to take place every year and only in 2007 it was decided to be held once in two years. This year the juries have chosen 136 films from 224 from such countries as the USA, Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Zech Republic, Italy and other countries.

The opening and closing ceremonies will take place in “Moscow” cinema. The film presentations will take place in big hall of the Armenian Filmmakers.

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London Editorial: Turkey in “dark ages”

March 19, 2010

(The following editorial is from the London Daily News online journal.)

Turkey once again is retreating into “dark ages mode” with threats by Prime Erdogan following comments during a recent visit to London to expel 100,000 Armenians in Turkey “if necessary I will tell the 100,000: OK, time to go back to your country”.

The issue of the Armenian genocide and the failure by Turkey to recognize this ever happened, not only discredits any aspirations that Turkey has of joining the European Union, but also its supporters which include the current Conservative and Labour party’s in the UK.

Azerbaijan Welcomes Adoption of The Madrid Principles by Armenia

March 19, 2010

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov welcomed adoption of the updated version of the Madrid principles for settlement of the Karabakh conflict by Yerevan.

The Madrid principles remain at the negotiating table, and we continue negotiating on them Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said March 18.

“This will create an opportunity to continue the negotiation process and begin work on a large agreement on the settlement of the conflict,” Elmar Mammadyraov told journalists at a news conference.

“We need to discuss further steps with the mediators,” Mammadyarov added, Trend News reports.

Source: ArmRadio - Original Article

 

Los Angeles to host an event in commemoration of Shahan Natalie’s 125th anniversary

March 18, 2010

In commemoration of the 125th anniversary of Shahan Natalie’s birth, the Shahan Natalie Family Foundation invites the public to attend a tribute to the living memory of the internationally known intrepid Armenian thinker, writer, orator, and activist.

The event will take place on Saturday, April 10, 2010, in the Los Angeles Public Library’s Mark Taper Auditorium. Preceding the afternoon program, Sylva Natalie Manoogian will lead a Hye (Armenian) Treasures tour of the Central Library’s resources, Asbarez.com reported.

Born in the village of Husenik, province of Kharberd, Historic Armenia, Shahan Natalie (born Hagop Der Hagopian) was orphaned at the age of 11, during the 1895 Hamidian massacres of the Armenians. He was sent to Istanbul and was accepted by the famed Berberian Academy, where his literary career and community activism were launched.

British Justice Minister Tells Erdogan the Armenian Genocide Bill Will Not Pass

March 17, 2010

British Justice Minister Jack Straw on Tuesday assured Turkey’s Prime Minister that Parliament would not pass a resolution recognizing the Ottoman-era killings of Armenians as genocide, CNNTürk reported.

“The chance of this becoming law is zero. I can assure everyone on this issue, Straw said.

After the Swedish parliament adopted an Armenian genocide resolution last week, many have turned their attention to the British Parliament, where a draft will be submitted to a House of Commons committee after a second reading on April 30.

If it is approved, an Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day will be established in the country.

“The English government and the opposition do not support this draft,” Straw said.

Davutoglu Speaks Out Against Deporting Armenians Living in Turkey Without Status

March 16, 2010

To deport citizens of Armenia living illegally in Turkey means to give a “winning card” to those countries who come out against Turkey, said Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu during a closed-door meeting of the foreign affairs committee of Turkey’s Grand National Assembly, responding to opposition People’s Republican Party MP Canan Arıtman’s earlier statements which suggested deporting all Armenian citizens.

“Such a step would become a winning card in the hands of those countries who are against us. In addition, all of the world’s countries’ papers will publish articles about deported Armenians. A nationalist image would form, [and] Turkey will be in a more difficult situation,” said Davutoglu.

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