Deja vu: genocide and rape again. Suzan Khardalyan's new film "Inside Her Inside Me, A Tale of Three Yazidi Women".
The presentation of the new film "Inside Her Inside Me, A Tale of Three Yazidi Women" by Suzan Khardalyan, a recognized Swedish-Armenian film scriptwriter, journalist, writer, author of more than 3 dozen films, will take place on April 30 at the University of London under the title Genocidal Captivity, University of London and the Holocaust on the initiative of the Wiener Holocaust Library, the largest archive collecting data on The 68-minute film was produced by HB PeÅ Holmquist Film. Suzan Khardalyan informed Aravot.am about this. His new film is about the genocide, deportation, kidnapping and rape of Yazidi women, which was carried out by the "Islamic State" group after the occupation of Northern Iraq. Through the fates of three Yezidi women, Ghasun, Dalal and Lamia, the director brings up the tragedy of an entire people. For 5 years, Suzan Khardalyan followed the women who survived the captivity of IS militants and started a new life in Germany. In the film, there are parallels between the Yazidis and the Armenian Genocides.
By the way, on April 29, Khardalyan's famous film "My Great Mother's Tattoos" will be shown again at London University, through which the author revealed the secret of his grandmother, which the family preferred to keep silent about. His Khanum grandmother was raped by the Turks during the Genocide at the age of 12, and her face was also tattooed. Moreover, she was not the only Armenian woman with tattoos tortured by the Turks. In the film "Inside Her Inside Me, A Tale of Three Yazidi Women", the author saw a striking similarity between the genocides of Armenians and Yazidis: the same images, groups of people fleeing in the hope of escaping the disaster, among them a woman with a child in her arms. In a conversation with the website, the director stated that the motives are the same, just 100 years later, and the new genocide is taking place in Iraq and Syria.
Ghasoun, one of the protagonists of the film "Inside Her Inside Me, A Tale of Three Yazidi Women", lives with her younger brother, she and Lamia are nieces who were able to help each other overcome severe mental trauma. Ghasun was 13 years old when he was captured and raped. A little girl, for whom it was incomprehensible to be tormented and raped by men older than her father.
The site writes: Suzan Khardalyan's mission is to speak out about people's rights, genocides and cruelties inherent in the planet. In his films, the contrast between violent stories and nature is also interesting. in the conditions of such peaceful nature, flowers, green, sky, sun and next to all this, human cruelty.
Suzan Khardalyan, in addition to being an independent film director, is also a master of international law and diplomacy. He is a graduate of Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the author of many articles, a director who has shown his films about the genocide around the world. Producer P. Holmqvist is also an independent film director, a photographer who worked in the war zone. The production company he founded, HB PeA Holmquist Film, has produced more than 60 documentaries since 1973, which have been sold worldwide.
