Hamshen Armenian filmmaker Özcan Alper’s movie titled “Memories of the Wind,” and which is devoted to the Armenian Genocide, was declared the best in a Turkish film festival that was held in Montreal, Canada.

Alper received the respective prize and spoke at the event.

“One of the reasons for the events currently taking place, both in the territories of Turkey and in Middle East, is that we [i.e. mankind] have not been able to sufficiently face the incidents that occurred in the past centuries, and, as mankind, we have not learned a sufficient lesson from them,” Özcan Alper specifically said, according to Akunq.net. “I wish that, from now on, we create films not about exiles, genocides, but rather [about] the beautiful days mankind has lived.”