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2010 FILM FESTIVAL

 

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Schedule

 

Friday, October 29

ARMY OF CRIME
(L’Armee du Crime) (139 min.)

A film by Robert Guediguian

The festival’s opening feature is the story of the Armenian poet Missak Manouchian, who leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation in Paris in 1944. Twenty-two men and one woman fight for a political ideal and for freedom. 

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Preceded by...

* Winner: Palme d'Or, Cannes, 2010 *

Serge Avédikian is an actor and French director, of Armenian origin. It was born in Arménie Soviet by accident, in fact its parents were born in France, since its grandparents that them were born in Anatolie, had come themselves there to install, after the genocide of the Armenians in the Empire Ottoman. In 1947 they left to live in Soviet Arménie, as of other patriots, thinking to be able to rebuild a country. The family returned in France in 1970. Serge has first does the conservatory of dramatic art to become theater actor, then it created a company and does the present. From 1978 it began turning in films of movie, all while continuing to do the theater. In 1982 it begins realizing films documentaries, then from 1990 of the more personal films, shorts and longs of fictions, all while continuing to play theater, to the movies and to the television. It created a corporation of production and produced most of its films, up to 2000. Aujourd'hui, it realizes animations films, documentaries and fictions, and continuous to work uniformly as actor.

 

 

 

 

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Saturday, October 30

 

 

FROM ARARAT TO ZION


A film by Edgar Baghdasaryan

(documentary, 2009, 70 min, in English)

Following the paths taken by Armenian Pilgrims over the last 2000 years, this documentary is a tribute to those who have contributed to the preservation of spiritual traditions and Christian legacy in the Holy Land. Striking scenes of the Church of Holy Sepulcher by night, the colorful spectacles of Easter in Jerusalem, the Ceremony of Holy Light, Mount Sinai in Egypt, the monasteries of the Judean Desert, and the summit of Mount Ararat create exquisite visual tapestries

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THE FIFTH COLUMN

(Hinkerort Zorasune)

A film by Vatche Boulghourjian

(in Armenian with English subtitles, 29 mins.)

 

* Winner: Cinefoundation Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival, 2010

A film that chronicles desperation and mourning in the economically and culturally marginalized Armenian quarter of Beirut (Lebanon) through a weave of allegorical narratives. In a panic, Hrag has stolen his father’s gun and fled home. As father searches for son, both discover paths to personal freedom in a city that offers no escape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sunday, October 31

 

HEART OF TWO NATIONS

A film by Nouritza Matossian

(documentary, 50 minutes, in Armenian with English subtitles)

This unique documentary film is based on private conversations between Matossian and late journalist Hrant Dink. Dink talks freely of his weekly paper Agos, the Armenian Genocide, his attempts to reconcile Armenians and Turks, and even his own death. Charged three times with “insulting Turkishness,” Dink ignored death threats and warnings to leave Turkey and was assasinated in 2007. Heart of Two Nations was awarded Audience’s First Choice at the Pomegranate Film Festival, Toronto.

 

 

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MODERN LOVE

A film by Stephane Kazandjian

(2008, in French with English subtitles, 100 minutes)

The festival closes with this very French, musical romantic comedy.  It’s the story of dreams, encounters, break-ups, and reconciliations—in short, the kind of wonderful love story that you only find in the movies.

 

 

 

 

 

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