AURORA'S SUNRISE – Grand Geneva Award – Creative Documentary Competition
Screening of the award-winning film "Aurora's Sunrise" by Inna Sahakyan
"The reconstitution of memories through a mise en scène that combines the strength of testimony, images from a film that was thought to be lost and the use of watercolour animation that carries the weight of tragic events. A cinematographic work that aims to prevent the Armenian genocide from being forgotten."
Women*Memory & HistoryMiddle East
Sunday 19 March
20:30
Grütli - Salle Simon
sold out - in case of cancellation, tickets will be put back on sale before the screening
This debat is preceded by the movie:
Competition - Creative documentaries
Aurora's Sunrise
By Inna Sahakyan
The Ottoman Empire, 1915. Aurora is 14 years old when her life and that of an entire people turns to horror: massacres, sexual assaults, slavery, forced exile... From the Ottoman Empire to New York, the teenager is propelled onto the Hollywood scene where her story is the subject of a famous film, Souls for Sale. Filmmaker Inna Sahakyan's documentary is interspersed with animation, archive footage and interviews with Aurora Mardiganian. "Aurora's Sunrise" relates a tragic event in contemporary Armenian history by chronicling the personal journey of Aurora, one of the survivors of the genocide.
Section Competition - Creative documentaries
Original language(s) Armenian, Turkish, German, Kurdish & English
Subtitle(s) English & French
Femmes*Mémoire & HistoireProche & Moyen-Orient
- Director(s)
- Inna Sahakyan
Co-writer
- Kerstin Meyer-Beetz
- Peter Liakhov
- Inna Sahakyan
World sales
- Cat&docs
Production
- BARS MEDIA
Cinematographer
- Vardan Brutyan
Music
- Christine Aufderhaar
Sound
- Tigran Kuzikyan
Editor
- Ruben Ghazaryan
- Duration
- 97'
- Year
- 2022
- Production country
- Armenia, Germany & Lithuania
- Status
- Regional Premiere
