Re: Armenia and the information war
Հաղթել ենք Ադրբեջանի պրոպագանդիստ Գեորգի Վանյանի դեմ։
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Festival Shut Out: Public outcry leads to cancellation of Azeri film screenings in Yerevan
Hours before an Azerbaijani Film Festival was to be launched in Yerevan today (November 12), the festival was cancelled, as the cultural centers chosen as hosts bowed to public outcry on media social networks and refused to participate.
The two-day film festival called ‘Stop” and initiated by the Caucasus Center of Peaceful Initiatives, aimed to create a dialogue between Armenia and neighboring Azerbaijan, and organizers say, the festival did not bear any political context.
“Our task was to start a dialogue, because we do not have the culture of talking to each other,” says George Vanyan, organizer of the festival, head of the Caucasus Center of Peace-Making Initiatives says. “The festival was supposed to be held still last year, however, all the cinema halls were busy then. And only this year, it was possible to find a place for the festival; however, only a few hours before the opening ceremony, the festival did not take place again.”
Five films were to be included in the festival.
A wave of protest arose in Yerevan, while the organizers and their supporters were severely criticized and threatened on social networks.
“The real image of Azerbaijan is full of hatred, history distortion. We hold film displays, where it is evident that in Azerbaijan film is used as a tool for an anti-Armenian propaganda, and holding such a film festival [in Yerevan] is senseless,” Karen Vrtanesyan, founding director of ‘Heritage’ cultural NGO, among those who opposed it, told ArmeniaNow.
Հաղթել ենք Ադրբեջանի պրոպագանդիստ Գեորգի Վանյանի դեմ։
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Festival Shut Out: Public outcry leads to cancellation of Azeri film screenings in Yerevan
Hours before an Azerbaijani Film Festival was to be launched in Yerevan today (November 12), the festival was cancelled, as the cultural centers chosen as hosts bowed to public outcry on media social networks and refused to participate.
The two-day film festival called ‘Stop” and initiated by the Caucasus Center of Peaceful Initiatives, aimed to create a dialogue between Armenia and neighboring Azerbaijan, and organizers say, the festival did not bear any political context.
“Our task was to start a dialogue, because we do not have the culture of talking to each other,” says George Vanyan, organizer of the festival, head of the Caucasus Center of Peace-Making Initiatives says. “The festival was supposed to be held still last year, however, all the cinema halls were busy then. And only this year, it was possible to find a place for the festival; however, only a few hours before the opening ceremony, the festival did not take place again.”
Five films were to be included in the festival.
A wave of protest arose in Yerevan, while the organizers and their supporters were severely criticized and threatened on social networks.
“The real image of Azerbaijan is full of hatred, history distortion. We hold film displays, where it is evident that in Azerbaijan film is used as a tool for an anti-Armenian propaganda, and holding such a film festival [in Yerevan] is senseless,” Karen Vrtanesyan, founding director of ‘Heritage’ cultural NGO, among those who opposed it, told ArmeniaNow.
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