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SCHOOLCHILDREN FEATURE IN SHORT FILM ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Transitions Online, Czech Rep.
Feb 13 2015
Ara Yernjakyan, the artistic director of the Yerevan Chamber Theatre,
has screened a new film in the city about children who survived in
the 1915 Armenian genocide.
Yernjakyan used children from the northwestern town of Ashtarak to
portray those who had lost their parents in the genocide. He told
ArmeniaNow that "you can rarely find actors of such quality."
Though the 15-minute film, Eclipse, is not based on a specific
incident, Yernjakyan said it portrays the impact of the genocide on
young people. "During any tragedy children are the first to suffer,
grown-ups somehow manage to overcome the tragedy, but children are
innocent, they do not understand why it happened so that yesterday
they had parents and today they don't," he said.
Yernjakyan began working on Eclipse after failing to secure funding
for a full-length film on the genocide. The Armenian government and
organizers of Armenia's Golden Apricot International Film Festival
provided support for the short film, according to ArmeniaNow.
Eclipse will be aired on television in April, during events marking
the 100th anniversary of the genocide. An estimated 1 million people
died in the mass killings and starvation of Armenians who were accused
by their Ottoman rulers of siding with Russia during World War I.
Despite efforts at reconciliation, the genocide continues to haunt
relations between Armenia and the Ottoman Empire's successor, Turkey.
http://www.tol.org/client/article/24685-ukraine-fighting-continues-as-truce-nears-minsk-host-says-coffee-cheese-helped-fuel-talks.html
Transitions Online, Czech Rep.
Feb 13 2015
Ara Yernjakyan, the artistic director of the Yerevan Chamber Theatre,
has screened a new film in the city about children who survived in
the 1915 Armenian genocide.
Yernjakyan used children from the northwestern town of Ashtarak to
portray those who had lost their parents in the genocide. He told
ArmeniaNow that "you can rarely find actors of such quality."
Though the 15-minute film, Eclipse, is not based on a specific
incident, Yernjakyan said it portrays the impact of the genocide on
young people. "During any tragedy children are the first to suffer,
grown-ups somehow manage to overcome the tragedy, but children are
innocent, they do not understand why it happened so that yesterday
they had parents and today they don't," he said.
Yernjakyan began working on Eclipse after failing to secure funding
for a full-length film on the genocide. The Armenian government and
organizers of Armenia's Golden Apricot International Film Festival
provided support for the short film, according to ArmeniaNow.
Eclipse will be aired on television in April, during events marking
the 100th anniversary of the genocide. An estimated 1 million people
died in the mass killings and starvation of Armenians who were accused
by their Ottoman rulers of siding with Russia during World War I.
Despite efforts at reconciliation, the genocide continues to haunt
relations between Armenia and the Ottoman Empire's successor, Turkey.
http://www.tol.org/client/article/24685-ukraine-fighting-continues-as-truce-nears-minsk-host-says-coffee-cheese-helped-fuel-talks.html