The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec)
July 6, 2004 Tuesday Final Edition

Ararat wins at Armenian festival

YEREVAN, Armenia/

Atom Egoyan’s two-year-old movie Ararat won the top prize at the
Golden Apricot Film Festival of works by ethnic Armenian directors,
officials said yesterday. The

festival included 57 movies by directors from 20 countries. Egoyan is
a Canadian of Armenian heritage. The film depicts the plight of
Armenians in Ottoman Turkey.