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Meeting with French-Armenian Film Director Jacques Kebadian

Sep 09, 2024 Events Cineclub

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Yesterday, French-Armenian film director Jacques Kebadian visited the National Library of Armenia. The director came to Armenia at the invitation of the Golden Apricot International Documentary Film Festival and the French Institute in Armenia. The film by the famous director "20 Years Later" was shown at the National Library. Jacques Kebadian met the family of the film's "hero" in the Diaspora. The film shows the family's expectations from a trip to their historical homeland. We meet the same heroes during the first Artsakh war, and the difficult post-war years, and eventually, we witness the family's emigration to the United States.

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After the screening, there was a discussion of the film and a Q&A session with the director. In response to the call of one of the participants in the discussion that those who, for various reasons, left their homeland during these decades should be invited to Armenia so that our country could prosper again, and thus make a sequel to the film, Jacques Kebadian said that such a "sequel" should be made by young people of the new generation who will ensure the unity of the Armenian Diaspora. After watching the film "20 Years Later" and talking with the director, the audience left the great hall of the National Library of Armenia with mixed feelings. In the Tamanyan building, hope and despair coexisted side by side with anticipation and the desire to increase the number of positive emotions.