In recent years, Aurora Mardiganian’s name has become familiar to wider audiences thanks to the rediscovery of “Ravished ...
The 2025 Amed International Film Festival in Diyarbakir will feature the Turkish premiere of the award-winning Armenian ...
Documentarian Inna Sahakyan had no previous experience working in animation prior to “Aurora’s Sunrise.” But the medium opened a world of possibilities when Sahakyan realized that there wasn’t enough ...
It tells the true and inspiring story of Aurora Mardiganian, an Armenian genocide survivor whose harrowing ordeal became the subject of a film in the 1920s. It was one of the great successes of the ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. “Aurora’s Sunrise” is an internationally ...
She is known as ‘Armenia’s Anne Frank’. Except, unlike the young Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, what happened to Aurora Mardiganian was largely forgotten, until now. ‘Aurora’s Sunrise’ is ...
EXCLUSIVE: We’ve got your first look at Armenia’s official submission for the Oscars’ Best International Film race, the stirring animated documentary Aurora’s Sunrise. Inna Sahakyan’s film tells the ...
Too often, documentary filmmakers fall back on using animation in a rudimentary way, just to keep the audience from zoning out during some long anecdote or info dump. But in director Inna Sahakyan’s ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This image was taken from the official trailer for ”Aurora's Sunrise,” distributed by Bars Media.
"Her story shouldn't be forgotten." Two official trailers are available for this indie documentary film titled Aurora's Sunrise, which will be out in select US theaters in August. Starting on Aug. 11 ...
Too often, documentary filmmakers fall back on using animation in a rudimentary way, just to keep the audience from zoning out during some long anecdote or info dump. But in director Inna Sahakyan’s ...