Raze Yek Haghighat

Aleppo-Armenian filmmaker Avo Kaprealian shows the life of an Armenian family that has fled to Beirut during clashes in the New Village district of Aleppo, Syria, in 2015. Kaprealian documented the destruction in the district and the civilians who faced hardships. He managed to shoot footage from the balcony of his house in the wartime to show the tragedy and to underscore that the Armenian and Arab populations in Syria equally suffer as a result of the barbaric activities. He draws parallels between the sufferings of the Syrian residents and the Armenian Genocide in a unique way. —Panorama.am The film portrays the changes in the life of an Armenian family on Aleppo's front-line in Al Midan, an area that brought shelter to the persecuted Armenians 100 years ago and today to many displaced Syrians. From the balcony of his home, the director films with a small camera the changes in his neighborhood and his own family, interweaving his images with extracts from classical films to illustrate the parallels between the Armenian genocide and Syrians' reality today. —Carthage Film Festival