Online Film Premiere: "The Teacher" from Armenia
7th of April, 2021. 18 PM (UTC+03)
“It is very difficult to talk to the children about peace and educate them positively when the images and experiences of the first war are still very much present,” Sona says. “Although this generation was born well after the first war and only hear about it from their parents and grandparents or see it in photographs and war memorials, unfortunately this time they, too, were forced to experience what it means to be a war refugee, to lose one’s home and school.”
When in autumn 2020 Sona Gevorgyan and I started talking about how interesting it would be to film a documentary about her experiences as a teacher in a remote village in Nagorno-Karabakh, we both agreed that we would definitely visit the place where she used to work, together. Karabakh was “not interesting” until that fateful 27 September, 2020. Tens of thousands of war refugees – women, children, the elderly – started moving from Karabakh to Yerevan and other Armenian cities. Children that Sona knew from Hin Shen village where she also used to work, found a temporary shelter in Yerevan too. During all that time Sona kept in contact with them.
"The Teacher" teaser: https://youtu.be/nZ_hZS-i3XE
-- Online Film Premiere: "The Teacher"--
18:00 - 18:35 Screening of the documentary The Teacher"
18:40 - 19:30 Discussion with
Stasys Vaitonis, director and producer "The Teacher"
Sona Gevorgyan - the storyttelier, Teach For Armenia
Lusine Karapetyan - the humanitarian action and youth programs coordinator, "Solution HUB"
18:00 - 18:35 Screening of the documentary The Teacher"
18:40 - 19:30 Discussion with
Stasys Vaitonis, director and producer "The Teacher"
Sona Gevorgyan - the storyttelier, Teach For Armenia
Lusine Karapetyan - the humanitarian action and youth programs coordinator, "Solution HUB"
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_gSPEdzCPSjycCW5jBkHgdw
This documentary is part of projects #Agenda2030, funded by the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and "Volunteering for Humanity", funded by the EU Aid Volunteers initiative (DG ECHO, European Commission).
