YEREVAN, JUNE 30, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Film director Tigran Khzmalain's "From Araks to Kur, from Artsakh to Javakhk" new chronicle-documentary film is another important and necessary reflection of different periods of time of the Armenian people's history which were decisive for the country and the nation. In the film the author expresses a strict political position concerning today's critical state of Javakhk, explaining it in this way: "If the Javakhk problem has no solution, it will become Nakhijevan, and will become Artsakh in the case of solution." As Tigran Khzmalian mentioned during the first show of the film on June 29, this 45 minutes film is of publicizing character. A great number of archive and didactic materials were used in the film. According to the author, the film is another attempt to remind the society about the Georgian-Turkish, Georgian-Azerbaijani, Georgian-Russian, Russian-Turkish and other agreement implemented against Armenians taken place in early 20th century, as a result of what Armenia lost the largest part of its territories. "Continuouly for 70 years, this country has had some ideology that suppressed healthy idea and breathing, when having today independence, we just have no ideology that must unite the people and authorities," Tigran Khzmalian emphasized. The film has not been shown by any TV channel yet: media representatives are the first to watch it. "All the Armenian TV channels seem to refuse to show my films today," Tigran Khzmalian said. After having been discharged from the "Yerevan" TV studio, the director created few films. One of them, "Aram Khachatrian's Century" film shot in 2005 was awarded the World Best Multimedia prize. After that he shot "Armin Wegner: Photographer of Genocide," "Fragment" ("Bekor"), then "From Araks to Kur, from Artsakh to Javakhk" films. The director works at present on the "Armenia in 20th Century" 8-part documentary film.

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