Commemoration Armenian Genocide

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day takes place annually on April 24. This year, on the day leading up to Remembrance Day and in cooperation with the Armenian Apostolic Church Surp Karapet, Lumière organizes a special screening of the documentary Aurora's Sunrise. This is a moving animated documentary about the life of a survivor of the genocide.

Special: Event
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4:15 PM Doors open
4:30 PM Start documentary
6:10 PM End
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Aurora's Sunrise

Gripping animated documentary about the life story of Aurora Mardiganian, who ended up in America as a survivor of the Armenian genocide and became world-famous there.

Please note that this film is in Armenian, English, Turkish, Kurdish and German, with Dutch subtitles.

1919 saw the premiere in New York of AUCTION OF SOULS, a silent film about a teenage girl who survived the Armenian genocide and fled to the US. The main role was played by the survivor herself, Aurora Mardiganian. The film was a box office hit, and Mardiganian became world-famous.

The massacres in Armenia continued, however, and Mardiganian was engulfed by the waves of relived trauma whipped up by the callous Hollywood publicity machine. Nonetheless, she chose to become the face of a humanitarian campaign, in the hope of saving her people. More than a century later, Inna Sahakyan’s historical documentary reconstructs the life story of this hero, who died in 1994.

Mardiganian’s memoir RAVISHED ARMENIA lies at the heart of this chronological animated film. The animated sections are interspersed with rare scenes from the original Hollywood film, most of which has been lost, as well as archive footage of an elderly Mardiganian recalling her remarkable, hellish odyssey. Just like the film’s director Sahakyan, she wanted to ensure that the Armenian genocide will never be forgotten. (source: www.idfa.nl)

Inna Sahakyan, Armenië, Germany, Lithuania, 2022, 96 min. Armenian, English, Turkish, Kurdish & German spoken, Dutch subtitles. With (de stemmen van): Anzhelika Hakobyan, Arpi Petrossian, Shushan Abrahamyan, Seyran Akopov, Miqayel Aleksanyan..