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Film: Gladys Berejiklian to be announced as patron of Armenian Film Festival in Sydney

Public Radio of Armenia
Armenia –
, 14:13

Former New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian will be inaugurated as official Patron of the Armenian Film Festival, which returns to Sydney for its 6th edition. Since 2016, Ms Berejiklian has attended and opened every Armenian Film Festival in Sydney.

Co-founders of the Armenian Film Festival, Hourie Demirjian and Margaret Chater said: “It’s a great honor for our festival to have the support of Gladys Berejiklian – a proud Armenian who has a deep appreciation for history and films. We thank her for her ongoing commitment in representing the Armenian community and multiculturalism in Australia.”

A highlight of this year’s festival is documentary 45 DAYS: THE FIGHT FOR A NATION – a film by British conflict documentary journalist reporter and filmmaker, Emile Ghessen, who has flown in from the Russia-Ukraine war to launch his film in Australia as part of the festival. It covers the largely unreported 44-day war on the indigenous Armenian Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) by Azerbaijan, backed by NATO member Turkey – only 18 months before the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS