Documentaries
Aurora’s Sunrise
The story of how Aurora Mardiganian, after losing everything during the Armenian Genocide at 14 years old, became a silent movie star after moving to New York. With luck and extraordinary courage, her story becomes a media sensation.
Outliving Shakespeare
In a derelict Soviet-era retirement home, a group of its elderly residents rehearse the original play “Shakespeare’s Sins”. Follow the troupe as they bond and find community in this thought-provoking exploration of the loneliness that comes with aging.
Mumma Bear Cushman
Softly spoken and endlessly underestimated, American nurse Emma Cushman crossed into the collapsing Ottoman Empire to serve – and stayed on as war and genocide tore families apart around her. Negotiating with officials in their own language and risking deportation rather than leave her orphans behind, she was pulled into a role that history has only half-told. A source-backed docutainment that asks: how much can a soul carry, lose, and still remain whole?
Ojakh, on the other side of the silence
Erhan Arik, a Turkish photographer, grew up in a house previously inhabited by Armenians. After he hears a voice in his dreams, he goes on a journey to understand the Armenian history of the land around him.
In Search of Light
Follow the raw and deeply personal journeys of two individuals as they navigate their relationship with faith and find God’s presence on their own paths. A world premiere by Armenian-Australian Hasmig Der Tateossian.
Expulsion
Following the 2020 Artsakh War, residents of Karvachar are forced to leave their homes and homeland behind. Months later, this moving documentary revisits those displaced families as they reflect on the heartbreak of exile, loss and the painful decision to abandon everything they knew.
