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"Ararat"
2002
Directed by Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan explores his Armenian heritage in this unique drama. A film-within-a-film, Ararat follows a film crew as they make a movie, also called Ararat, about the 1915 Siege of Van, where over a million Armenians were killed at the hands of Turkish troops. Using a non-linear structure, Egoyan tells the horrific story through the film crew's lens and weaves into it a complex series of subplots involving their lives, loves and quest for truth. "A triumph" (Los Angeles Times).  115 minutes.