The Lark Farm is a movie about the Armenian Genocide by veteran Italian directors, the Taviani Brothers.
It will be featured as part of this year’s Italian Film Festival, with the Sydney session times/dates confirmed as the following:
[u]Norton Street[/u]
Thursday 27th of September at 6:20PM
Sunday September 30th at 6:00PM
[u]Paddington Cinema[/u]
Monday 1st October at 6:30PM
Friday 28th September at 9:00PM
[u][b]THE LARK FARM REVIEW[/b][/u]
Veteran Italian directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (PADRE PADRONE) deliver the first high-profile film after Atom Egoyan's "Ararat" to examine the Armenian genocide perpetrated by Turkish forces in 1915, a pre-cursor to the Jewish Holocaust and a topic that's still considered taboo in Turkey today.
Based on a novel by Antonia Arslan, a literature professor now living in Italy, the film enjoyed a controversial World Premiere at the Berlin Film festival. It deals with the history of a middle-class Armenian family living in provincial Turkey. The kind-hearted Aram (Tcheky Karyo) and his wife, Armineh (Canadian-Armenian actress Arsinee Khanjian), ignore the warning of war from the Young Turk government in Istanbul and instead ready 'The Lark Farm', their country estate, for the arrival of Aram's brother, Assadour (Mariano Rigillo), from Venice. But, the charming family atmosphere is soon shockingly overturned...
Fantastic performances by an international cast playing Armenians, Turks, Greeks, Italians and Syrians including Spanish star Paz Vega whose charisma anchors the story in the role of Nunik Avakian, a spirited beauty in love with a dashing Turkish officer.
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