On 20-28 March, VARA TV of the Netherlands broadcast the documentary film “Bloodbrothers” on the sidelines of the “Movies that Matter” Festival in The Hague. The documentary film was made on the occasion of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, as the Diary of the Netherlands reports to Hayern Aysor.

The screening didn’t end there. It is currently being broadcast on the Second Channel of Public Television of the Netherlands.

The documentary film is about a Dutch-Turkish journalist and a famous Armenian actor trying to find out what happened in 1915. The TV viewer joins them as they travel across Turkey and Armenia, meet people with different viewpoints and learn about the painful episodes of the Armenian Genocide.

After the research that they conduct during their journey, the main characters of the film eventually find out that the crime that was committed was the Genocide and pay their tribute to the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

The director of the film is Case Schap, who also came up with the idea of a film. The book “Bloodbrothers” by Sinan Kan and Ara Helich has already been printed and is available.

Earlier, the film was shown for media representatives in Amsterdam on March 11, after which the film’s main characters and the director, psychologist-historian Tom Tsvan, sociologist and genocide expert Ugur Ungur, Deputy of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, member of the Christian Union Party Joel Fordevind, expert for the Financier Dakhblad newspaper Hayko Yesayan and President of the Turkish Labor Union Mustafa Aranchi participated in discussions on the film.

There is also a Facebook page for the film.

Broadcasts of the six-part film began on March 22 and will continue every Sunday until April 26^th.