Monday, May 24, 2010

Serge Avedikian receives Palme d’Or



French-Armenian filmmaker Serge Avedikian won the Best Short Film prize at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival for his Chienne D'histoire (Barking Island).

The events of the 15-minute animation film take place in the Ottoman Empire in 1910. The streets of Constantinople are overrun with stray dogs. The newly established government, influenced by a model of western society, uses European experts to choose a method of eradication before deciding, suddenly and alone, to massively deport the dogs to a deserted island away from the city where they die of hunger and thirst.

Many critics say though indirectly, the film depicts the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

 

 

Source: The Armenian News by A1+

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