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Ara Mnatsakanyan’s The American Good Samaritans wins Best Humanitarian Feature Film award at Cannes
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YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 29, ARMENPRESS. Armenian filmmaker Ara Mnatsakanyan’s The American Good Samaritans was named winner of the Best Humanitarian Feature Film category at the Cannes World Film Festival.
Produced by Manvel Saribekyan in the United States of America, Lebanon, Greece and Iran, the film is his second documentary, the first of which was called “The Map of Salvation” and honoured the stories of European Missionaries who saved thousands of Armenian lives.
The American Good Samaritans is a compelling Armenian Genocide documentary retelling the story of extraordinary American missionaries who saved thousands of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks during the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
