This weekend, silent film star Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian will return to LA – though this time, in animated form. “Aurora’s Sunrise,” the first Armenian animated documentary to date, will make its North American premiere at the Gkids-sponsored Animation Is Film Festival. This is only the latest of the production’s many laurels. Earlier, it competed at Annecy, the world’s oldest festival dedicated to animated image. In its home country, “Aurora’s Sunrise” reaped the coveted Silver Apricot at Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival. Now, it will compete for Armenia on an international scale as the national official submission to the 95th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film.
In content and in form, “Aurora’s Sunrise” feels like a natural ambassador for the Armenian state. From the get-go, the intro reveals that Mardiganian had seen herself responsible to spread the word of Armenian Genocide in the US.
In content and in form, “Aurora’s Sunrise” feels like a natural ambassador for the Armenian state. From the get-go, the intro reveals that Mardiganian had seen herself responsible to spread the word of Armenian Genocide in the US.
- 10/21/2022
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
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