Vahagn Simonyan
A movie of joint Armenian-Russian production telling about the Karabakh war has won two top prizes at the 3rd International Film Festival in Beijing, 
China.
According to the official website of the Festival, which ended on April 23, the movie, ‘If Only Everyone’, by Natalija Bieliauskiene, received awards for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ (Vahagn Simonyan) and ‘Best Music’ (Vahagn Hayrapetyan).
The plot of the 94-minute movie weaves around the daughter of a Russian officer who was killed in the Karabakh war; she comes to Armenia 20 years after her father’s death and is trying to find his lost grave to plant the birch seedling she has brought along from home.
The authors of ‘If Only Everyone’ stress that while being a recollection of the 1992-1994 hostilities in and around Karabakh, the movie is more about peace than war and is a unique call for forgiveness and tolerance.
‘If Only Everyone’ has also won awards at other international film festivals, including at Golden Apricot in Yerevan, and was on the long list of the Oscar Academy Award as the Best Foreign Language Film in 2012.