An emotionally powerful coming-of-age drama set in Little Armenia. 12 year-old Armenian boy, Aram, is suddenly uprooted from his home and sent to live with his Grandfather in America. He falls in with the wrong crowd and struggles to navigate the clash between old-world values and new-school Armenian identity. A […]
It is 1947, and Charlie, a genocide survivor having escaped the genocide and grown up in the USA, repatriates back to Armenia to connect with his homeland, only to be greeted with the harsh reality of Soviet Communism. Ending up in a Soviet prison he is hopeless and alone, when
A genocide survivor becomes a silent movie star. At only 14 years old, Aurora loses everything during the horror of the Armenian Genocide. But with luck and extraordinary courage, she escapes to New York, where her story becomes a media sensation. After publishing a memoir of her experiences, Aurora goes
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