| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Simon Abkarian | ... | Arshile Gorky | |
| Charles Aznavour | ... | Edward Saroyan | |
| Christopher Plummer | ... | David | |
| Arsinée Khanjian | ... | Ani | |
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Setta Keshishian | ... | Dinner Guest / Wailing Mother |
| David Alpay | ... | Raffi | |
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Shant Srabian | ... | Dinner Guest #3 / Doctor #1 |
| Marie-Josée Croze | ... | Celia | |
| Elias Koteas | ... | Ali / Jevdet Bay | |
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Brent Carver | ... | Philip |
| Max Morrow | ... | Tony | |
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Christie MacFadyen | ... | Janet |
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Dawn Roach | ... | Customs Officer |
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Garen Boyajian | ... | Young Gorky |
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Lousnak Abdalian | ... | Gorky's Mother |
People tell stories. In Toronto, an art historian lectures on Arshile Gorky (1904 -1948), an Armenian painter who lived through the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. A director invites the historian to help him include Gorky's story in a film about the genocide and Turkish assault on the town of Van. The historian's family is under stress: her son is in love with his step-sister, who blames the historian for the death of her father. The daughter wants to revisit her father's death and change that story. An aging customs agent tells his son about his long interview with the historian's son, who has returned from Turkey with canisters of film. All the stories connect. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
A terrific rough style cast in a story about denial and the truth of living in denial. At first, I thought the movie was about the Armenian Genocide, but its not. It's about a families struggle in the present day world trying to live knowing that the genocide is their past. Many interesting characters are introduced throughout the story. The plot thickens as characters appear in the movie and the movie within the movie. The issue about denial is stronger than the truth. The issue about Turkey is made many times and is the last thing we see at the end of the movie, still, this is not a movie about the Genocide and Turkey's true intentions, its about the aftermath and the denial that becomes the truth.