Author: Kanayan Tamar

POLISH FILM DIRECTOR HOLLAND: “A QUALITY FILM ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS WIAITING TO BE MADE”
Mаry Mamyan

hetq
16:27, July 16, 2012

Agnieszka Holland, one of Poland’s most prominent filmmakers visiting
Armenia for the screening of her film “In Darkness” at the Golden
Apricot Film Festival, told reporters that, “A quality film about the
Armenian Genocide still needs to be made. It’s a reality that still
needs recognition.”

Holland, many of whose films deal with WWII, was at a loss to explain
why a good film has yet to be made regarding the 70 year existence of
the Soviet Union and the terrible repression that took place within
its borders.

Considered a Hollywood outsider, Holland stated that she is one of
those directors who place the primarmy emphasis on the composition
which is succeeded by the placement of the images.

“They coalesce and create a history that answers those questions that
compel me to make films,” Hollan explained.

Perhaps Holland’s best-known and well-regarded film is Europa Europa
(1991), based on the biography of Solomon Perel, a Jewish teenager
who fled Germany for Poland following Kristallnacht in 1938.

In Darkness (2011), a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film award
at the 84th Academy Awards as Polish entry, is based on true events.

The film tells a story of Leopold Socha, a sewer worker in the
Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lwów (since 1945 Lviv, Ukraine), who
used his knowledge of the city’s sewer system to shelter a group of
Jews of the Lvov Ghetto during the Holocaust in Poland.

It’s a theme that strongly resonates with Holland who was born in
Warsaw a few years after the end of the WWII.

Her father’s parents were killed in the ghetto, and her mother
participated in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and was a member of the
Polish Underground.

“I didn’t select this theme, it selected me many years ago and I have
become its slave,” Holland said.

ARMENIAN ROAD MOVIE WINS BRITISH COUNCIL’S SPECIAL PRIZE

tert.am
16.07.12

Armenian Rhapsodies, a road movie by Diaspora-Armenian young directors,
has been awarded a special prize at the British Council’s Armenian
Panorama contest.

According to an official statement by the organizers, the film,
which tells about Armenia, will be screened in the United Kingdom
next year as part of the Sheffield Doc/Fest 2013 festival.

Sheffield Doc/Fest is an annual documentary film festival that attracts
the best representatives of cinematography, who gather together to
discuss their accomplishments of the past year.

The Armenian Rhapsody has been produced by the joint efforts of three
Brazilian-Armenian directors. It is the first full-length movie by
Kasiana Ter-Harutyunyan.

“The Diaspora-Armenian young producer has managed to reflect
Armenia through his color palette. The film is rich in characters,
each telling about his or her own Armenia, ” said Narek Tovmasyan,
a programs managers at the British Council.

The authors have characterized their work a road movie, considering
that their heroes’ stories merge together to create the history
of Armenia.

The film was also awarded the Best Armenian Documentary prize at the
Golden Apricot International Film Festival.

TO READ TUMANYAN IN THE ORIGINAL IS STILL A DREAM FOR OZJAN ALPERI

ARMENPRESS
16 July, 2012
YEREVAN

To read Tumanyan in the original is still a dream for Ozjan Alperi

Yerevan, July 16, ARMENPRESS: There where policy is “powerless”,
culture lends a hand. Real artists are often able to do much:
create connections, take the first step to dialogue, which are often
basis for further cooperation in other spheres. “Armenpress” had an
interview with the Hemshin Armenian director Ozjan Alperi arrived in
Armenia within “Golden Apricot” Yerevan International 9th Festival,
on possibility of cultural dialogue and the role and necessity of
artists in this issue. The director’s “Autumn”, “Momy” and “Future
is forever” films raised a new wave of discussions in Turkey.

“Mr. Alperi, what made you shoot films?”

“There were issues, topics I wanted to depict, to show: that made me
shoot films. I participated in film seminars of Mijagetk cultural
center and Nazim cultural house, took lessons of cinema and was a
director assistant in different films. I could have transferred my
tale by means of other spheres, but I chose films.

“You raise political issues, talk about Armenian and Turkish refined
issues, but you do not want them to become preaching. Is it possible?

”

“I locally speak and tell about those countries’ people, I work for man
and thus touch upon Turkey’s current political problems. One should
separate culture from politics. Art helps to see man and his soul,
while creating art I see the world in my soul, country, Turkey and
raise political issues, but I do not preach. Actually I am trying
to depict reality in human and art in a correct and beautiful way,
as reality is it.

“Would you like to learn Armenian?”

“Surely I would. My desire is for the future generation to have
and learn their written language. If you do not master the written
language of your country, you can hardly master its culture. I would
like to read Tumanyan in the original, not in the mediated translation.

The director answered a lot more questions, but did not want to talk
about his childhood, but for the first “acquaintance” with his Armenian
origin, he noted:

“I had a very successful childhood in mountains. The first time I
learnt about being Armenian was in student years. I do not like to
talk about this. My films are more important at the moment”.

ARMENIA, IRAN TO ESTABLISH JOINT FREE TRADE ZONE, OFFICIAL SAYS

armradio.am
16.07.2012 12:35

A senior Iranian official announced Iran and Armenia’s plans to
establish a joint free trade zone, Fars News Agency reports.

Caretaker of Aras Free Trade Zone Sadeq Najafi made the remarks in a
meeting with the governor of Armenia’s Syunik province, during which
the two sides inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation
in investment, trade and environmental sectors.

“In this MoU, it was agreed that an Iranian-Armenian free trade zone
will be established for joint investment by Aras Free Trade Zone and
Syunik province,” Najafi said in Armenia on Sunday.

The two sides also agreed to create a joint border market at Nordouz
border which is located within the boundaries of Aras Free Trade Zone,
he added.

MEHEMET II AVAIT FAIT MASSACRER SES FRERES EN BAS AGE
Jean Eckian

armenews.com
lundi 16 juillet 2012

Les peuples dits grands traitent d’egal a egal les peuples voyous sans
savoir qu’ils perdent ainsi de la hauteur et precipitent leur chute

Le 29 mai 1453 l’empire romain d’Orient, “empire byzantin” s’effondrait
par la chute de Constantinople avec massacres des civils, tueries,
viols et sacrilèges commis par les sectateurs de Mahomet.

Le système liberal pratique a ce sujet l’habituel silence mediatique
comme pour tous les thèmes contraires au politiquement correct..

Aucune memoire, aucune pensee, aucun article, aucun echo dans les
medias pour ces victimes, apparemment moins egales que d’autres.

“Durant toute cette journee, les Turcs firent, par toute la cite,
un grand carnage de chretiens. Le sang coulait sur la terre comme
s’il en pleuvait et formait de vrais ruisseaux. … Georges Phrantzes
dit aussi que, ‘en certains endroits, le sol disparaissait sous les
cadavres et que l’on ne pouvait passer par les rues’.

‘… Ils volent, derobent, tuent,… font captifs femmes, enfants,
vieillards, jeunes gens, moines, hommes de tous âges, de toutes
conditions’.

… Ils prenaient les tresors et les vases sacres, depecaient les
reliques et les jetaient au vent ; ils exhibaient dans les rues puis
dans leurs camps, le soir, des crucifix montrant le Christ coiffe de
l’un de leurs bonnets rouges. De Sainte-Sophie, ils firent d’abord
une ecurie. Un nombre incalculable de manuscrits precieux, ouvrages
des auteurs grecs ou latins de l’Antiquite, furent brûles ou dechires.

Les religieuses, violees par les equipages des galères, etaient
vendues aux enchères. … ‘Cette cohue de toutes les nations, ces
brutes effrenees, se ruaient dans les maisons, arrachaient les femmes,
les traînaient, les dechiraient ou les forcaient, les deshonoraient,
les violentaient de cent facons aux yeux de tous dans les carrefours’.

ARMENIAN POLICE PUBLISH EXPERT RESULTS OF BALLOON ACCIDENT

Vestnik Kavkaza
July 13 2012
Russia

The Armenian police have published the first results of the balloon
explosion at Republic Square in Yerevan, which happened during a
meeting of the Republican Party, News.am reports.

The expert evidence says that 7,000 balloons were filled with methane.

Such an explosion was not caused by a cigarette, it was most likely
a result of direct flame.

People injured in the accident have expressed outrage over the fact
that there are no suspects and that those responsible for the blast
have not been caught.

ARMENIAN CHURCH TO INCREASE PRESENCE IN NATIONAL ARMED FORCES

news.am
July 13, 2012 | 16:57

YEREVAN. – The Catholicos of Armenian Apostolic Church Garegin II
received five churchmen on Friday who were going to undertake a
religious service in Armenia’s Armed Forces.

Religious leader of Armenian Armed Forces Vrtanes Bishop Abrahamyan
introduced the five churchmen to the Catholicos and spoke about the
religious service in Armenian army. Afterwards, the Catholicos blessed
the young churchmen.

“You are called to raise the spirit of Armenian soldiers and strengthen
their love towards the church and motherland. I ask you to be exemplary
persons for military servants and to make them understand that the
army is the guarantee of Armenian state and the existence of Armenian
people,” said the Catholicos in his speech.

At present there are 48 churchmen in different military units of
Armenia.

SAVE JERMOUK GROUP DEMANDS ANSWERS FROM ENVIRONMENT MINISTER

hetq
16:44, July 13, 2012

A civic group battling to keep the resort town of Jermouk from turning
into a mining zone has called on the Minister of Nature Protection
to respond to the public petition it made in June.

The group, “Save Jermouk from Becoming a Mine” had demanded that the
town be classified as an “impacted community” due to its proximity
to the Amoulsar gold mine.

The group, in its letter to the minister, added that it would pay
for any copying costs related to the matter.

YEREVAN MAYOR MEETS WITH KAZAKHSTAN’S AMBASSADOR

news.am
July 13, 2012 | 14:45

YEREVAN. – Cooperation between Armenia’s capital city Yerevan and
Kazakh cities was discussed during the meeting between Yerevan Mayor
Taron Margaryan and Kazakhstan’s Ambassador Ayimdoz Bozzhigitov.

Underscoring the high level of cooperation and partnership
in Armenian-Kazakh interstate ties, Margaryan noted that, despite
the warm and friendly relations between the capital cities of both
countries in this context, there still is a lot to do in terms of
bilateral and mutually beneficial cooperation.

“I am confident that cooperation between the two [capital] cities need
to be placed on more practical foundations, especially considering
the cooperation potential that exists in Yerevan and in Astana
alike. We are open and ready to discuss and materialize mutually
beneficial programs. [And] Appreciating your personal contribution to
consolidating Armenian-Kazakh ties, I am confident that you will do
your utmost toward bringing to a proper level the cooperation between
the capitals of Armenia and Kazakhstan, too” noted Taron Margaryan.

In his turn, Ambassador Bozzhigitov pointed to the need for
establishing more practical ties among Yerevan, Astana, and other
Kazakh cities, and noted that he will contribute to establishing and
developing these ties to the extent of his official power.

PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY LEADER “TRICKS” WELL-KNOWN CONSTRUCTOR? – NEWSPAPER

news.am
July 13, 2012 | 08:00

YEREVAN. – Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan
deceived his team member, well-known constructor Vazgen Poghosyan,
who was 34th in the PAP’s parliamentary election party list, Irates
De Facto writes.

“Gagik Tsarukyan summoned him and said: ‘Dear Vazgen, write a petition,
renounce [your] parliamentary mandate because I’m getting ready
to give you the position of Urban Development Minister.’ [So,] He
[Poghosyan] wrote [the petition] and remained ‘on the sideline.’

No one among his circles believed in such ‘sad’ finale. ‘Vazgen should
have been an MP at least. He invested very great efforts and resources
for the PAP,'” Irates De Facto writes.