Award winning documentary feature film,

‘A Story of People in War and Peace,'

US Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival

Press Release: April 4, 2007

A Story of People in War and Peace is a powerful,
personal understanding of the human costs of war through
the eyes and lens of Armenian filmmaker Vardan
Hovhannisyan. Prompted by a question from his son,
Hovhannisyan embarks on a journey to find his surviving
trenchmates from the Nagorno-Karabagh war of the early
nineties with neighbouring Azerbaijan and examines the
lasting effects of the war during a time of peace. Timely and
universal, AStory of People in War and Peace wrestles with
the question of how to maintain dignity in the face of terror.

Tribeca Film Festival Executive Director Peter Scarlet
comments '…what the film offers is something quite
remarkable: it's made by a filmmaker who covered the war at
the time, and who inter-cuts his old footage with interviews
he's filmed now with the surviving soldiers…it succeeds
heartbreakingly in driving home the fact that somehow we
know that nothing justifies the fact of taking the precious,
irreplaceable life of even a single human being.’

Hovhannisyan, a former prisoner of war, spent years
processing his war experience before finally making A Story
of People in War and Peace. 'Hovhannisyan does not
emphasize the political side of the conflict, but the
psychological effects the war had on the young soldiers. He
juxtaposes chaotic and terse frontline images of 12 years
ago with panoramic shots in fixed frames of the beautiful
scenery today. But all this calm is an illusion, as one soldier
puts it.' International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
(IDFA), 2006.

The film has won numerous awards and has been shown
in film festivals all over the world including the IDFA
(Amsterdam), Barcelona Film Festival, One World Film
Festival (Prague), Doc Aviv (Tel Aviv) and Zagreb Film
Festival. Future screenings include Hot Docs (Toronto),
Belfast Film Festival and the Ukrainian International
Documentary Film Festival. A Story of People in War and
Peace is a co-production with ITVS, BBC, ARTE France,
WDR Germany and YLE Finland, with the support of
UNESCO and the British Council.

Tribeca Film Festival show times:

Sunday April 29 5:00 pm Regal Cinemas Battery Park-Theater 5
Tuesday May 1 3:30 pm AMC Kips Bay-Theater 13
Wednesday May 2 6:30 pm AMC Kips Bay-Theater 13
Thursday May 3 2:45 pm AMC 34th Street-Theater 13
Friday May 4 11:00 am AMC 34th Street-Theater 12

In addition to these public screenings, the film's Press
& Industry Screening has been scheduled for Monday,
April 30 at AMC 34th Street-Theater 12 at 2:00 pm.

For the directions to these theaters please visit:

www.tribecafilmfestival.org

Eduard Marquez, in Armenia

Lauren Kesner, in New York

Claire Gascoyne, at Tribeca Film Festival

www.warandpeacefilm.com

edward@barsmedia.am

lauren@barsmedia.am

cgascoyne@tribecafilmfestival.org

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