People tell stories. In Toronto, an art historian lectures on Arshile Gorky (1904?-1948), an Armenian painter who lived through the genocide in Turkey in 1915. A director invites the historian to help him include Gorky's story in a film about the genocide and Turkish assault on the town of Van. The historian's family is under stress: her son is in love with his step-sister, who blames the historian for the death of her father. The daughter wants to revisit her father's death and change that story. An aging customs agent tells his son about his long interview with the historian's son, who has returned from Turkey with canisters of film. Parents and children. All the stories connect. 电影，该怎样记忆屠杀？（此稿被毙，因为担心土耳其不高兴）。《阿拉若山》否定历史或许只是为了躲避自己的罪孽。解不開的結。《阿拉若山》随想。战争中我流尽鲜血，和平中我寸步难行...。关于阿拉若山的点滴想法。ARARAT。 加拿大青年拉菲（David Alpay 饰）是亚美尼亚后裔，他的母亲安妮（Arsinée Khanjian 饰）是艺术史学者，最近新发表了关于亚美尼亚画家高基的著作。拉菲的女友西莉娅是继父的女儿，他的亲生父亲则死于行刺土耳其驻加拿大大使，西莉娅认为父亲的跳崖完全因为安妮，在公开场合对她的研究成果百般诘难。 导演索拉杨正在筹拍一部关于亚美尼亚大屠杀的影片，由于计划将少年时期的高基写入剧情，遂邀请安妮担任顾问，拉菲得以进入剧组帮手。拉菲将胶片带回加拿大时被海关安检扣留，因为女友有贩毒记录，拉菲一时难以脱身，开始向安检员讲述电影内容：1915年，土耳其军队包围凡城，破城后在亚美尼亚的圣山阿拉若山脚下展开了对亚美尼亚人的血腥屠杀…… 本片获2003年吉尼奖最佳配乐、最佳艺术设计等多项褒奖。时空交错的剧本结构尤为精巧。
