The Armenian Studies Program and the Fresno State CineCulture program are presenting the Fresno premiere screening of the film “Armenians, The Hidden Grandmothers,” at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, March 27. The screening is free and open to the public and will be held in the Leon S. and Pete P. Peters Educational Center, 5010 N. Woodrow Ave. (west end of the SaveMartCenter), on the Fresno State campus.
Director Alexandra Routhiau Mikaélian, French of Armenian origin, made a promise to her grandfather, to find the members of their family in Turkey based on a simple name, Shahimé, this sister he was never able to meet. From this journey through time in search of the living, Alexandra will lift the veil of one of the most deeply rooted taboos in Turkish society, those for which you still risk your life.
This story is the story of these millions of Armenians and Turks, those we call the “hidden Armenians” or the “remnants of the sword,” descendants of women and children converted and forcibly integrated into the Turkish population during the Armenians genocide. For the first time, we tell the missing stories of these women, victims of the genocide, the Armenian grandmothers who passed on their stories by whispering…