Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, FL
July 7 2004

Ararat wins at Armenian film fest

Atom Egoyan’s 2002 movie, Ararat, won the top prize at the Golden
Apricot Film Festival of works by ethnic Armenian directors,
officials said Monday.

The festival included 57 movies by directors from 20 countries.
Egoyan is a Canadian of Armenian heritage.

Ararat depicts the plight of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. Armenians
say that a 1915-1923 campaign to force Armenians out of eastern
Turkey left 1.5 million people dead and amounted to genocide. The
title refers to the mountain that Armenians regard as their national
symbol but which now is in Turkey.