About Screening Rights 2024: The Medallion + 1489
The penultimate screening of Screening Rights’ 10th-anniversary edition - subtitled Double Bill and aimed at fostering South-to-South solidarity - features two films exploring genocide, displacement, and family histories in Ethiopia and Armenia.
Partially filmed in soothing 16 mm and featuring a heartfelt conversation between the filmmaker Ruth Hunduma and her mother about the latter’s experience of displacement, The Medallion movingly highlights the Ethiopian Civil War and Red Terror of the 1970s.
Shot primarily within her family home in the ethnically Armenian enclave of Artsakh, Shoghakat Vardanyan’s 1489 is a deeply intimate, first-person account of her family’s attempts to locate her brother Soghomon, a soldier assigned the number 1489 after going missing in action in 2020, at the onset of the latest (and most devastating) cycle of Azerbaijani aggression, which culminated in the occupation of Artsakh in autumn 2023.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring guest curators Anna-Maria Tesfaye and Alan Kessedjian, and filmmakers Ruth Hunduma and Shoghakat Vardanyan.
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Duration includes trailers, adverts and any Q&A/panel. For events such as NT Live, Colour Box and Reel & Meal there will be minimal advertising. We do not admit latecomers after the main feature has started and we have a limited food & drink policy.
MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.
