11th Annual Armenian Film Festival
Date: Friday, March 5, 2010
Time: 7-10PM
Place: Industrial Technology, Room 101
Place: Industrial Technology, Room 101
Free admission
Films to be screened:
Anjar: Flowers, Goats and Heroes (2008) (Canada)
Director: Noura Kevorkian-Running Time: 87 minutes
Synopsis: In 1979, at the peak of the Lebanese Civil War, a young Armenian girl’s life in a small village becomes forever linked to a group of heroes, the survivors of the 20th century’s first genocide.
Talking Pictures (2009) (Istanbul, Turkey)
Director: Mehmet Binay-Running Time: 14 minutes
Talking Pictures (2009) (Istanbul, Turkey)
Director: Mehmet Binay-Running Time: 14 minutes
Synopsis: Talking pictures is the photographic journey of Ghazaros Kerjilian as he returns to his ancestral hometown of Geben in search of his great uncle, who went missing in 1915. Secret links are about to be unearthed.
Hove (The Wind) (2009) (Colorado)
Written and Directed by: Alex Webb-Running Time: 9 minutes
Synopsis: Two Armenian women’s friendship is deeply affected by a chance encounter with the past and powerful, unresolved legacy of the Armenian Genocide. Zara (played by Olimpia Dukakis) is visited by her friend Nina (played by Shirleyann Kaladjian) at the Armenian cultural bookstore. Zara is reading a mysterious book that has deeply disturbed her.
Komitas Hayrig (2009) (Florida)
Director: Bared Maronian-Running Time: 18 minutes
Synopsis: The life of Komitas Vardapet – composer, ethnomusicologist, priest and father of modern Armenian classic music – is told through interviews with Armenian clergy, still photographs and the beautiful folk songs he worked so hard to preserve. The film also charts the catastrophic impact of the Armenian Genocide of Armenian Clergy.
Free admission
Hove (The Wind) (2009) (Colorado)
Written and Directed by: Alex Webb-Running Time: 9 minutes
Synopsis: Two Armenian women’s friendship is deeply affected by a chance encounter with the past and powerful, unresolved legacy of the Armenian Genocide. Zara (played by Olimpia Dukakis) is visited by her friend Nina (played by Shirleyann Kaladjian) at the Armenian cultural bookstore. Zara is reading a mysterious book that has deeply disturbed her.
Komitas Hayrig (2009) (Florida)
Director: Bared Maronian-Running Time: 18 minutes
Synopsis: The life of Komitas Vardapet – composer, ethnomusicologist, priest and father of modern Armenian classic music – is told through interviews with Armenian clergy, still photographs and the beautiful folk songs he worked so hard to preserve. The film also charts the catastrophic impact of the Armenian Genocide of Armenian Clergy.
Free admission
Sponsored in part by the Diversity Awareness Program of the University Student Union.
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Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Coordinator
Armenian Studies Program
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