Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
Direction
Egoyan weaves three timelines like a trauma spiral you can't escape.
Acting
Plummer's customs interrogation scenes are quietly devastating.
Production
The film-within-film Ararat set design mirrors real historical erasure.
Director
Atom Egoyan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Turkey still officially denies the Armenian genocide, making this 2002 release literally dangerous cultural activism.
The real Arshile Gorky painting 'The Artist and His Mother' featured in the film was destroyed in a 1962 plane crash—Egoyan's recreation is itself an act of memorial restoration.
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