Canada, “The Promise” World Premiere at Toronto Film Festival #ArmenianGenocide

“Michael, a humble Armenian apothecary, leaves her village to study medicine in the cosmopolitan city of Constantinople. Chris, an American photojournalist who came into the country to cover part geopolitics, is related to Ana, an Armenian artist educated in Paris. When Michael meets Ana, heritage creates an attraction that leads to a love rivalry between the two men. After the Turks have joined the war on the German side, the Ottoman Empire turned violently against its own ethnic minorities. Despite the conflict, everyone has to find a way to survive – even when monumental events affecting their lives, “the synopsis of the film on the website of TIIF.

Sources said the film “The Promise” will be in theaters in December.

Terry George, who was nominated for an Oscar for best director for “Hotel Rwanda,” co-wrote “The Promise” with another Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robin Swicord. In March 2013, George was the guest of the State Pedagogical University of Armenia, where the Irish filmmaker compared the Armenian genocide in 1994 Rwandan genocide.

The shooting of the film, which also depicts, Charlotte Le Bon, James Cromwell, Marwan Kenzari, Jean Reno, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Angela Sarafyan, among others, ended in Europe last fall and is in post-production.

After the last shot vued u film was produced, co-manager of Survival Pictures and producer of the film, Eric Esrailian described to Asbarez newspaper an email in which he said that “Kirk would be proud,” referring to Kirk Kerkorian died June 16, 2015 in Los Angeles. “It makes all that hard work even more special.”