German-born Turkish director Fatih Akin acknowledged he received hate mails and threats on Twitter after shooting “The Cut” , a film on Armenian Genocide.

“The Cut” was screened Sunday within the framework of the 71st Venice Film Festival.

During a news conference Akin said he received threats, but called not “to make too much out of that”, movies.yahoo.com reported.

Simon Abkarian, one of the actors in the film, said it was a movie that Armenians have been waiting for.

“The first generation had to survive, the second generation had to live and the third generation had to react and claim what we had to claim, which is the recognition of the genocide, most of it. And I think that one film is never enough to tell such a story, we have to make more,” he said.