ACOM Cinema Saturday

 ACOM Cinema Saturday returns this year as a virtual event. The show will be on Zoom (link to be sent out prior to the evening) at 7:00 PM.

Mayrig Part 1  Our first offering will be the film Mayrig (Mother) which is a 1991 semi-autobiographical film written and directed by French-Armenian filmmaker Henri Verneuil. The film's principal cast includes Claudia Cardinale and Omar Sharif as parents of Azad (Henri Verneuil depicted as child). Mayrig means mother in Armenian. The film is about the struggles of an Armenian family that emigrates to France from Turkey after the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The film being shown is in the original French with over-dubbed Russian dialog and has English subtitles. Will be shown in 2 parts - Feb. and Mar.