7th Annual Pomegranate Film Festival

Hamshen Director Ozcan Alper was the first film maker in Turkey to depict the Armenian language on film and was persecuted by the Turkish government as a result.

Unleash your inner Armenian this Fall by attending the 7th annual Pomegranate Film Festival and supporting Armenian film makers as well as Armenian causes. This year's program offers a series of films that examine issues of identity, restoration and the plight of minorities in Anatolia today.

FUTURE LASTS FOREVER

Synopsis:

Director Özcan Alper (AUTUMN) latest feature is filmed in Diyarbekir, where a Hamshen graduate student is on a research mission to record elegies, but soon discovers painful answers to her own past.  This highly acclaimed masterpiece of film will be Alper’s fourth contribution to POM.

-       Followed by Q&A with actor and Agos Newspaper editor Sarkis Seropyan.

MEMORIES WITHOUT BORDERS

Saturday October 20 @ 1:00pm– Hamazkayin Theatre.

Armenia/Nagorny Karabakh/Azerbaijan/Turkey – Mehmet Binay, Co-Directors (Ayaz Salayev and Levon Kalantar) – 55 min. – World Premiere

Synopsis:

Located at the intersection of national memories and personal lives, director Mehmet Binay’s latest documentary challenges the audience to ask: what do we choose to remember about others and what do others choose to remember about us? Based on a collaboration of Armenian, Azerbaijani, and Turkish directors, Binay’s latest provocative film meditates on collective memory, personal discovery and national borders.  Binay’s previous contributions to the Festival include WHISPERING MEMORIES in ’08 and TALKING PICTURES in ’10

Armenian National Committee of Toronto [anct@anctoronto.org].