A List of Films About the Armenia Genocide

• 04.24.2016, 15:34
•  World,  Armenia,  Diaspora,  Info

Lots of films have been shot on the Armenian Genocide to increase the awareness of the people on the terrible atrocities. "Armedia" IAA presents a list of some movies on the Genocide shot during the recent years.

Who Killed the Armenians?

This is a documentary on Armenian Genocide for the first time been shot in Arabic. The 70-minute documentary film was shot in Armenia, Egypt, and Lebanon and presents several documents, testimonies of survivors of the Genocide that prove the Ottoman Turks’ barbaric acts against the Armenian nation.

Bloodbrothers

"Bloodbrothers" film presents the story of Netherlands-based young men of Armenian and Turkish descent in search for their past, trying to understand what happened in 1915. They travel to Armenia and Turkey and after a long search they find out that it was Genocide and pay tribute to the victims of the Armenian Genocide. 

1915

100 years after the Armenian Genocide a director is staging a play at the Los Angeles Theatre to honor the victims of that crime, forgotten and denied for an entire century. But this will not be an ordinary performance. As protesters surround the theater before showtime, it appears that Simon’s mission is far more dangerous than we think – and the ghosts of 1915 are everywhere.

 

 Orphans of the Genocide

The film was directed by American-Armenian filmmaker Bared Maronian and premiered in 2015 at the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The documentary is about an orphanage located at Antoura, Beirut, Lebanon where thousands of Armenians had found a shelter after 1915 Genocide. 

 

The Cut

The film is directed by a German director of Turkish origin Fatih Akın.  It is about the events of 1915. During the Armenian Genocide, a young man named Nazareth Manoogian losses his family. After several years he learns that his twin girls may be alive. Thus Nazareth starts his search reaching from his Mardin village to deserts, to Cuba and finally North Dakota.

 

The Armenian Genocide 

The film is a 2006 television documentary film exploring the Ottoman Empire killings of more than one million Armenians during World War I. It is narrated by Hollywood celebrities Orlando Bloom, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Jared Leto, Julianna Margulies and Natalie Portman.

 

The following 5 films on Armenian Genocide according to "Armedia" IAA are the MUST watch ones:

Mayrig

It  is a 1991 semi-autobiographical film written and directed by French-Armenian filmmaker Henri Verneuil and is about the struggles of an Armenian family that emigrates to France from Turkey after the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

Ararat

It is a 2002 Canadian-French drama historical film written and directed by Atom Egoyan and is based loosely on the defense of Van in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide. In addition to exploring the human impact of that specific historical event, the film also examines the nature of truth and its representation through art.

The Lark Farm

It  is a 2007 Italian drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani about theArmenian Genocide. The film tells about the Avakians, an Armenian family living in Turkey. Turkish military regiment crops up at the house, annihilates every male member of the family and forces the ladies to trek off into the Syrian desert, where they will be left to rot. 

 

Dzori Miro

The film is based on Mushegh Galshoian’s novel. Miro loses the family during the Genocide, goes to Eastern Armenia and settles in a village. His love for a refugee girl sparks his willingness to create a family and start a new life.

 

Nahapet

Nahapet is a 1977 Armenian film about a man who tries to rebuild his life after losing his wife and child in the Armenian Genocide. It is based on a novel written by Hrachya Kochar. Nahapet reaches to Eastern Armenia, settles in one of the villages and marries.

 

 It should be mentioned that the first film shot about the Armenia Genocide was the Ravished Armenia. 1919 American film based on the autobiographical book Ravished Armenia by Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian. The film tells about the 1915 Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire from the point of view of Armenian survivor Mardiganian