CINEMA AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN ARMENIA AND TURKEY
Marianna Gyurjyan

"Radiolur"
20.03.2009 13:44

According to Armenian directors and scriptwriters, the cooperation of
Armenian and Turkish cinematographers could have firm grounds only
after the screening of the topic of the Armenian Genocide. Director
Tigran Khzmalyan told reporters that it’s possible to make more things
understandable and available through cinematography than rhetoric
and acts of protest.

Scriptwriter Gagik Harutyunayn insists that the topics proposed by
Turkish cinematographers are unacceptable. "The Armenian and Turkish
cinematographers should be honest in their relations. If we are going
to launch dialogue, we should first speak about the Genocide. I have
said this to Turkish cinematographers," Gagik Harutyunayn noted.

"We should not turn the cinema into weapons. Cinema could serve as a
bridge. Weappons can be used just once or twice, while cinema could
serve very long as a bridge," Tigran Khzmalyan said.