USC to Screen Nazarian, Mkrtchyan Film ‘The Other Side of Home’

USC to screen Eric Nazarian and Naré Mkrtchyan film The Other Side of Home

LOS ANGELES””The USC Institute of Armenian Studies along with USC School of Cinematic Arts and the USC Shoah Foundation will host the screening of director Eric Nazarian and writer Naré Mkrtchyan’s Armenian Genocide themed film, The Other Side of Home, on September 1, 2016, at the Ray Stark Family Theatre in Los Angeles.

The film is about a Turkish woman named Maya discovers in 2015 that her great grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. As Maya wrestles with this new reality, she comes to embody the conflict that remains unresolved between the two peoples. She has two conflicting identities: one that suffers and the other that denies the suffering and its causes. The Other Side of Home is a documentary that follows Maya as she goes to Armenia to take part in the 100th commemoration of the Genocide and to explore her new-found roots.

Mkrtchyan describes her film as “a universal story of identity, denial, and how the experience of genocide creates a ripple effect for future generations on both sides.”