SERBIAN ARMENIAN FILM DIRECTOR ARIS MOVSESIAN BEING IN MOTHERLAND
FOR THE FIRST TIME TRIES TO DISCOVER IT FOR HIMSELF
YEREVAN, JULY 13, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAT. Serbian Armenian
Film Director Aris Movsesian takes part in the "Voske Tsiran"
(Golden Apricot) International Film Festival for the first time. His
"Aporia" film is presented in the "Armenian Panorama" competition
program. Being a dentist by profession, Aris Movsesian is also engaged
in literature, he has published a stories’ collection entitled "Images
and Writers". Besides, he has also written the film script of the film
"Greatest Monster of the World" by Goran Rusinovitch.
Grown up in a family of a Serbian mother and Armenian father, Aris has
come to Armenia for the first time. As he mentioned in an interview
with the Noyan Tapan correspondent, "Aporia" is his first director’s
work, and he is happy that it is presented just in this festival.
"I like cinema very much. In the opinion of the specialists, all my
stories are subjects of seperate films, and I will try to work in
this direction also in the future," said Aris.
The events happen on the borders of life and death, logics and
impossible in the "Aporia" film. "In general I like to write on
philosophical themes and I’ll try to shoot films on that themes in
the future", mentiond the Film Director.
"We do not speak in Armenian in our family. I have heard Armenian
earlier from my grandmother and grandfather, who used it for secret
talks", said Aris Movsesian. In his words, Armenia is a field of new
discoveries for him. "When I was in Serbia, only my nose was so big,
and in Yerevan I saw people with bigger noses and I was explained
that big noses are typical to almost all Armenians", he said.
"My grandmothers and grandfathers left Armenia 100 years ago, and now
I am here to see and understand the mystery of this country and what
kind of people Armenians are in general", emphasized the Film Director.