Spotlight on Armenian Causes
Vazgen: The Last Sparapet
A gifted writer turned wartime leader, Vazgen founded the Armenian military, secured victory, and dreamt of economic reform, only to be tragically assassinated in parliament. A tale of courage, sacrifice, and lasting legacy.
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.
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.
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.
The Eternal Red
A disillusioned veteran finds himself at a war photo exhibition, where everybody else sees art, while he relives his past.
The Ring
Fifty years after being driven from her childhood home, a woman returns in search of memories from her past. But her quiet act of remembrance is mistaken for something else entirely, setting off an unexpected search for treasure and revealing the distance between memory and myth.
