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The animated documentary Aurora’s Sunrise, produced with the financial support of Armenia’s National Cinema Center, will be screened at four festivals in the coming days.

The Italian premiere of the film will be held at the Trieste Film Festival. The film will be screened at Alpe Adria Cinema, followed by a Q&A session with its director Inna Sahakyan and art director Tigran Arakelyan, the National Cinema Center reports.

The Swedish premiere of the film will be held as part of the Göteborg Film Festival both offline and online. The Australian premiere of the film will be held as part of the Europa Europa Film Festival in Melbourne and Sydney, while the Finnish premiere of the film will be held at the DocPoint Documentary Film Festival in Helsinki.

More information on the film screenings is available here.

“The National Cinema Center of Armenia extends its best wishes for the continued success of the film,” it said.

A co-production of Armenia, Lithuania and Germany, the animated documentary by Inna Sahakyan tells the extraordinary story of Aurora Mardiganian, who survived the Armenian Genocide as a teenager, and later came to Hollywood where she starred in a 1919 silent film based on her account of the massacre.

This film was made possible with the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.