El Paso Public Library to host Armenian Film Festival 2010
April 18, 2010 – 17:56 AMT 12:56 GMT
PanARMENIAN.Net –
El Paso Public Library, Texas, USA, will host Armenian Film Festival
2010 from April 22 to 24.
The program includes the following films: Germany and the Secret
Genocide (Set against the backdrop of World War II, the film
chronicles the involvement of Turkey’s ally, Germany, in the first
genocide of the 20th Century. German documents attest to Turkish
culpability and to German complicity and cover-up. Kevin Thomas of the
Los Angeles Times has declared the film a `…rigorously researched
….a notable and persuasive film…a warm-up to the Holocaust) on April
22.
Voices from the Lake (This feature-length documentary film on the
Armenian genocide focuses on the day-to-day tragedy that unfolded in
Kharpert-Mezreh, one among 4,000 towns and villages of the former
Ottoman empire in 1915, where monumental forces were unleashed by a
policy of annihilation. The story is captured through eyewitness
accounts by American and European officials, missionaries, educators,
and Armenian survivors, as well as by little-known documents and
diaries. This film is very useful in creating an understanding of the
impact of the genocide on individuals and on a particular community)
on April 23
The River Ran Red (The epic search for survivors of the Armenian
Genocide of 1915 along the Euphrates River. From his archives of 400
testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses, award-winning filmmaker J.
Michael Hagopian weaves a compelling story of terrifying intensity,
taking the viewer from the highland waters of the river to the burning
deserts of Syria… and to the final resting place of those whose
blood ran red in the waters of the Euphrates. Winner of the Best
International Historical Documentary of the New York International
Film and Video Festival and Second Place (History and Biography) of
the U.S. International Film and Video) on April 24.