Windsor Star (Ontario)
July 6, 2004 Tuesday Final Edition

Egoyan wins top honours at Armenian film fest

SOURCE: Star News Services

YEREVAN, Armenia

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 Monday.

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. Armenians
say that a 1915-1923 campaign to force Armenians out of eastern
Turkey left 1.5 million people dead and amounted to genocide.