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Program Nocturne # 4
Focus Armenia # 1 |
Saturday, November 28, 2015 / Midnight (Night to Sunday, November 29)
Maison de Portugal - Résidence André de Gouveia
Cité universitaire / Paris
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Orphans of the Genocide |
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Baret Maronian
United States
2013 / 1:31:35
Orphans of the Genocide is an emotional visual journey through
never-before-seen archival footage and discovered memoirs of orphans
who lived through the last century’s first, fully documented and least
recognized Armenian Genocide of 1915.
The documentary follows Maurice Missak Kelechian whose research
findings unveil the site of an Armenian orphanage located at the
present day Antoura College near Beirut, Lebanon where 1,000 Armenian
Genocide Orphans had lived and were forcefully converted and
“Turkified” during W.W. I. In addition to the Antoura site, the
documentary unveils numerous other orphanages where Armenian orphans
were housed – and profiles one orphan girl who was adopted and later
became one of Turkey’s high-profiled national icons as the daughter of
Ataturk, the founder of modern-day Turkey. The documentary traces the
lives of many orphans who lived through the horrors of a war, losing
parents and being separated from siblings and shipped to various
countries.
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November 26 - December 6, 2015
The FISDN presents film secions focused on different countries and regions. This section intends to discover and explore different spaces and cultures with the aim to understand the specific regional, political and social circumstances, do reconstruct the emotional and intellectual spécificities of a special region or country. In this critical work we belief it's essencial to prefer films which rufuse, in its form and expression, the retake of sterotype ways of reality restituition. This refuse is an act of resistance against the actual period of "globalisation", which inclins to impose one dominating model of culture and habitutes.
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