I had an interesting day today. I went to an international film festival which has been gonig on here in Yerevan, and watched four movies (approx. 30 min each). The first was a Georgian movie which showed me that large parts of Tblisi are very unattractive. (I hear all the time about the beautiful old town, but nothing else). Then two Estonian movies which taught me that the Baltic republics of the Soviet Union are already practically caught up with the west, unlike Armenia and Georgia. They also taught me that about 400 birds will be homeless next year and that people played chess during WWII. The last movie, which is why we went, was about the Hamshen Armenians. A good sized population in NE Turkey near Georgia and the Black sea which speaks Armenian, but are Muslim, and don't really know they are Armenian. It was Turkish movie about a kid and there, nothing to do with the fact that they are Armenian, but it was quite fun to listen to their funny dialect nonetheless.