An Armenian film director , Edward Saroyan , arrives to Toronto with a goal to make a film about the Armenian Genocide , the Van Resistance , and Gorky . Ani is hired as a historical consultant , with Raffi working on the project with his mother . An aspiring Turkish Canadian actor named Ali receives his big break when cast as Ottoman governor Jevdet Bey . Ali reads on the history of the genocide , which he had never heard much of before , and offends Raffi when he tells Saroyan that he believes the Ottomans felt the genocide was justified , in light of World War I. Raffi attempts to explain to Ali that the Armenians were citizens of the Ottoman Empire and that the Turks were not at war with them . Ali shrugs the encounter off , saying they were both born in Canada and they should together try to move past the genocide
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Ararat (film)