“44 passengers, 36 hours, one big family… Turkey and Armenia… Two closed countries. Two distant neighbors. Throughout history, those two nations have shared the same land. Nowadays, those two nations, though living side by side, ignore each other,” said Aris Nalci, the filmmaker and project coordinator of a new documentary project that traces the lives and stories of the passengers and drivers of buses that travel between Yerevan and Istanbul each week. Because of the closed border between the two countries, a one-way trip takes 36 hours and goes through Georgia.
“The main objective of the project is to shed some light on the challenges faced by the Armenian immigrants that come to Turkey through Georgia and to raise awareness about the problems related specifically to the journey between Turkey and Armenia,” said the filmmaker.
Armenian News
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