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Aleppo-Armenian filmmaker’s documentary wins top award at Torino Film Festival

Aleppo-Armenian filmmaker Avo Kaprealian has won the “Best international documentary” award at the 2016 Torino Film Festival.

According to the Festival’s , “Out of an impossible situation, he shows what is impossible to show – from the balcony of his family’s home he looks at the whole world.”

“He makes us feel that Syrian and Armenian people are all humanity and makes us trust in the tools of cinema to help humanity to exist and resist in all times”

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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