Ararat

May 20, 2002

1h 55m

★ 6.1

A quest for truth... among lies, deception, and denial.

Overview

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Genres

Drama

War

History

Production Companies

Ego Film Arts

Alliance Atlantis

Serendipity Point Films

ARP Sélection

Téléfilm Canada

Ararat Trailers

Cast

Arshile Gorky

Simon Abkarian

Edward Saroyan

Charles Aznavour

David

Christopher Plummer

Ani

Arsinée Khanjian

Raffi

David Alpay

Celia

Marie-Josée Croze

Ali / Jevdet Bay

Elias Koteas

Philip

Brent Carver

Tony

Max Morrow

Janet

Christie MacFadyen

Customs Officer

Dawn Roach

Young Gorky

Garen Boyajian

The spring of 1950 was also the spring of the multi-party regime in Turkey. A new 10 years, a new regime, a new government. The first test of democracy was beginning. The National Chief of the single-party period had returned to his Pink Mansion. The address of the opposition was clear now. When it comes to power... Power was shared by a tripartite trivet from the first day: DP Group in the Parliament. Celal Bayar in the Mansion and Adnan Menderes in the Prime Ministry..

6.3

War Pony

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The interlocking stories of two Lakota boys growing up on Pine Ridge Reservation. At 23, Bill just wants to make something of himself. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Matho can’t wait to become a man. Bound by their shared search for belonging, each of the boys grapple with identity, family, and loss, as they navigate their unique paths to manhood.

4.7

Seaburners

Feb 7, 2014

Denise, a botanist, is working in the swamps in a part of Turkey, planting and researching local flora. In her evenings she sometimes meets with her lover Hamit, a simple man at first glance. But he is making his living with human trafficking which he keeps a secret from Denise. When Hamit learns that Denise is being sent back to her home country soon, one final trafficking job takes a dark outcome.

6.3

The Lamb

Oct 19, 2014

In a small village, young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests at the celebration. Mert’s older sister scares him that if they cannot afford a lamb the father will slaughter him instead.

0.0

12 September: Coup Diary

Nov 23, 1998

Turkish democracy got over May 27 and March 12 and set off again, but the storm did not subside, and the mutual reckoning was not over. On the contrary, new fronts were opened in the country and blood began to flow like a gutter. Finally, on September 12, there was a knock on the door again. Those who came that day changed everything, everything. Nothing will ever be the same again

0.0

Demirkırat: Victory

May 28, 1991

Societies, like people, have turning points in their histories. These milestones sometimes silently and spontaneously knock on the door, and sometimes they explode like a terrifying thunderclap. The year 1950 was such a turning point for Turkey. A simmering social reaction against 27 years of power erupted in the spring of 1950. Society has cracked its quarter-century shell. Not by shedding blood in the streets, but by voting at the ballot boxes. "Demirkırat" was reared by the general vote. That's why the 14 May 1950 elections were always called the "White Revolution"...

0.0

50 Years of Cyprus: Final

Jan 29, 1999

32.Day, a news classic by Mehmet Ali Birand, is with you this time with the documentary 50 Years of Cyprus!

7.7

The Girl with the Red Scarf

Nov 18, 1977

İlyas, a truck driver from Istanbul, arrives in a remote village to work on a dam construction project and meets a young village woman named Asya. They fall madly in love and get married. However, their life together is fraught with conflict. When İlyas cheats on Asya, the final straw in their relationship, she takes her son and begins wandering without knowing where she is going, until a familiar hand reaches out to help her selflessly.

0.0

Years with Özal: January 24

Nov 5, 2000

While we were wandering through the pages of our democracy history, we saw right-left fights and experienced revolutions. Blood was shed, scaffolds were set up, but they could never change the country's path. When we came to the 1980s, a person came out and shook the system to its roots and changed the world of people. According to some, this was a great revolution, according to others, it was the wear and tear of some values. Regardless, this person left his mark on a period of Turkey.

7.3

Only You

Mar 14, 2014

The passionate love between a former boxer and a beautiful blind woman.

6.0

The Impeccables

Jan 3, 2014

Two sisters in their early thirties find themselves isolated in the Aegean summer cottage of their childhood, as they must deal with their uneasy sibling relationship and confront their devastating recent past past.

0.0

SELIN

Invalid Date

As a talented Turkish swimmer grapples with her mother's terminal illness back home, she navigates the pressures of maintaining her scholarship in the U.S. and her relationship with her American boyfriend. Ultimately, confronting the pain of cultural disconnection and the quest for belonging in a world that feels increasingly distant.

7.2

Fate

Feb 1, 2001

Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.

5.7

Envy

Aug 8, 2009

Seniha lives with her brother Halit and his wife Mükerrem. When Nüzhet, the handsome son of the richest family in town, sets his eyes on the married Mükerrem, she is at first disgusted with Nüzhet’s overt sexual innuendo. However, it isn’t long before Mükerrem yields to her lust and thus they embark on an affair. When Seniha finally reveals her sister-in-law’s un-virtuousness to her brother, Seniha has no idea what the consequences will be and how cruelly her destiny will change.

7.1

Piano Girl

Apr 17, 2009

The story of an exile man who came from Russia. He is the last descended of his family.

8.1

Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor

Dec 25, 2013

Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe's deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars. And amongst them, the Doctor. Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what this enigmatic signal means for his own fate and that of the universe.

5.3

Beautiful Men

Oct 14, 2023

Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.

5.3

Keşif

Oct 19, 2018

Esma, Berk and Hasan are three people who try to escape the troubles of life with the help of a video game called Discovery. These three young people is sucked into the game in a mystical way. They find themselves in the battle of Gallipoli.

6.2

Out of the Blue

Jun 10, 2022

Instead of enjoying her vacations in a peaceful peninsula of Turkey, Anna feels stuck in a strange torpor, while her boyfriend, Thomas, doesn't seem to notice it at all. Later in the afternoon, when a little girl suddenly disappears on the beach, Anna awakens and decides to go and find her, despite the unknown and the nightfall.

7.7

On the Silver Globe

Feb 10, 1989

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.