Moving the Mountain

When Atom Egoyan's son, Arshile, was six or seven, the Canadian director decided it was time to share with him some painful family history: the deaths of more than 1 million Armenians, including some of Egoyan's paternal relatives, at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during World War I. In response, the little boy had one inevitable question:

"Did the Turks say sorry?"

Since the Turks have never admitted that the massacres and forced deportations amounted to genocide — they acknowledge only that many died on each side in World War I — Egoyan didn't...