Syuzanne Khardalian’s film moves Turkish audience

Grandma’s Tattoo’s, a movie by Swedish-Armenian film-maker Syuzanne Khardalyan, is said to have deeply touched Turkish spectators.

Some of them decided to share their impressions on Facebook after watching the film in Istanbul on March 15.

“Suzanne Khardalian's film screened in Istanbul huge hall was full of people who wanted to watch the film... We waited protest nothing happened. After screening everybody was tearful, silent and look at each other faces... I felt myself guilty, I felt myself dirty,” on viewer said on on the social networking sight.

The film was screened at the city’s French Cultural Center in the frameworks of the international women’s festival Filmor.

“The screening was a success. You know it would only be one screening at 19:00, but there were so many people that they put an extra screening at 20:00 too. The place was full in both screeningFethiye Cetin (Hrant Dink family's lawyer), well known academics, in short "celebrities" of the Turkish oppositionist community was there. 80% of the audience were women,” reads a post a Turkish intellectual activist.

Before submitting her film to the Turkish public’s judgement, Khardalian expressed hope it would serve as a platform for a dialogue.

“It is actually an invitation to deal with our deep-rooted taboos, taboos that have crippled us, both Armenians and Turks,” she had said.

“When making this film, I understood after long deliberation and reflection that I had to be in this. Although the film is about my grandma, it is as much about myself. It is about my reality today.”

The film will be also screened in the towns of Canakkale , Hakkari.