SaroyanLand (Saroyan Ülkesi)

SaroyanLand is a 2012 documentary film directed and written by Lusin Dink. A co-production of France, Turkey, and Armenia shot in Turkish, the film follows the journey that Armenian-American writer William Saroyan made to Bitlis in 1964. Saroyan's family had emigrated from Bitlis to America, and the writer had been curious about the city since childhood, through the stories he heard from his mother.

Filming took place at the Kundura Factory in Istanbul and along the Trabzon–Bitlis route. The roughly 72-minute film was released in Turkey on December 6, 2013. Some critics observed that the film keeps the information it offers about Saroyan's life carefully measured, and also noted that the author wrote his texts about the trip not during the journey itself, but far away from it.