Event postponed until September 19!
Join us on August 13th at Brooklyn Commons Park! Screening of Emily Mkrtichian’s There Was, There Was Not and Theo Panagopoulos’ The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing followed by a discussion between Emily Mkrtichian and Lila Nazemian
In collaboration with Rooftop Films.
Date: September 19, 2025 – doors open at 7 pm, screening begins at 8:30 pm
Ticket Price: Free with RSVP
Address: Brooklyn Commons Park, 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Film: There Was, There Was Not, Emily Mkrtichian, 2024, Armenia, US, 94 mins.
Armenian, with English subtitles
There Was, There Was Not follows four women living in the Republic of Artsakh, an unrecognized country reckoning with the aftermath of one war while on the precipice of another. In the midst of this uncertainty, four women build a life with the hope of making their home a better place. When war breaks out again, what began as an observational meditation on women’s roles after conflict becomes an urgent and intimate record of their lives interrupted once again by war. From taking up arms on the front lines to fleeing their homes as refugees, each woman’s life changes irrevocably. Their journey becomes the myth of a homeland lost forever, and the power of story to keep it alive.
Film: The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing, Theo Panagopoulos, 2024, UK, 17 mins.
Silent
When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land.
