D.C. Shorts Film Festival: "Ziazan," an Armenian girl's adventure in geopolitics
Sometimes chocolate speaks of geopolitics. It does just that in Turkish director Derya Durmaz's film "Ziazan," part of the D.C. Shorts Film Festival. In the 15-minute movie " which has screening dates through Sept. 15 " a 4-year-old Armenian girl stows away in the enormous suitcase of her uncle, a traveling merchant who has brought her Turkish chocolate in the past. She is greedy for more. International tensions turn…