Naré Mkrtchyan will screen her film,“The Other Side of Home,” an eye-opening account of the legacy of the 1915 Armenian genocide by the Turkish government. on Tuesday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. in The Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges, SC 157-158) under the auspices of the Armenian Students Association of Ramapo College, the Armenian National Committee of New Jersey, and the Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The program is free and open to the public.

In 1915, the Ottoman Turks killed an estimated 1.5 million Armenians during the Armenian Genocide. In 2015, a Turkish woman named Maya discovers that her great-grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. Maya embodies the conflict as she has two enemies living in her body: one side that suffers from the knowledge of the Genocide and the other side that denies its existence. The documentary follows Maya as she decides to go to Armenia to take part in the 100th commemoration 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. Having been short-listed for an Academy Award in the documentary short category, ”The Other Side of Home” was the first film in the 89-year history of the Oscars to raise the issue of the Armenian Genocide. It was the winner of the Best Documentary Film award for the 19th Annual ARPA International Film Festival, organized by the Arpa Foundation for Film, Music & Art (AFFMA).