On April 20, Cineculture presents The Other Side of Home (2016).

Discussant: Naré Mkrtchyan (Director/Producer)

In 1915, an estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Turks, during the Armenian Genocide. One hundred years later, also in 2015, a Turkish woman named Maya discovers that her great-grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. Maya embodies this painful conflict for she bears two enemies in her body: one that suffers and the other that denies. This documentary follows Maya as she decides to go to Armenia to take part in the 100th anniversary of the genocide and to explore her conflicted identity. This film is a universal story of identity, denial, and how the experience of genocide creates a ripple effect for future generations on both sides. In English, Armenian, and Turkish with English subtitles. 40 minutes, Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6r7rhRPHlA

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Sponsor: The Armenian Studies Program

Film screenings are Fridays at 5:30 p.m. in the Peters Education Center Auditorium (West of Save-Mart Center in the Student Recreation Center Building). Exceptions will be noted.

All CineCulture films are free and open to the public.

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community. For further information about CineCulture: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/