{"id":162283,"date":"2012-02-17T13:04:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T09:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=162283"},"modified":"2012-02-17T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T09:06:23","slug":"baku-cancels-russian-film-screening-because-of-karabakh-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/17\/baku-cancels-russian-film-screening-because-of-karabakh-conflict.html","title":{"rendered":"Baku Cancels Russian Film Screening Because of Karabakh Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Facebook activists have asked the Park Cinema in Baku to cancel its planned Feb. 21 screening of the Russian film <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitchfilm.com\/news\/2011\/12\/giant-robots-arrive-in-russia-august-8.php\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">August Eighth<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> \u2014 the title referencing the Russo-Georgian war in August 2008, Regnum reports.<\/p>\n<p>The group calls the screening unacceptable in Azerbaijan, \u201cwhere Armenia carried out aggression with Russia&#8217;s support.\u201d Seeing parallels with Armenia&#8217;s aggression against Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, they believe the film justifies Russian aggression against Georgia (in South Ossetia), and endorses Russian hegemony in the South Caucasus.<\/p>\n<p>The theatre administration was warned that if the screening proceeded as planned, the group would conduct a public campaign to boycott the film.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the \u201cconcern of Azerbaijani society&#8221;, the theatre cancelled the screening and removed advertisements for the film.<\/p>\n<p>Director Janik Faiziyev co-wrote the film with American screenwriter Michael A. Lerner. The plot follows a divorced woman from Moscow who sends her 7-year-old son to Tskhinvali, Georgia, to be with his father, when the August 2008 war erupts and she must travel to the front lines to save her son. In between, she battles giant robots and other sci-fi elements. Shooting took place in Moscow, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Facebook activists have asked the Park Cinema in Baku to cancel its planned Feb. 21 screening of the Russian film August Eighth&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10255,38286,10265,10672,10256,13901,10254,15494,10609],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}