The presentation, organized by the Regional Executive Board of Hamazkayin Lebanon, took place on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, at 8:30 pm, at Hagop Der Melkonian Theater.
Tamar Snabian-Sourdjian delivered the opening speech before the screening began. She said that the film Women of 1915 was highly appreciated, and had already received more than a dozen awards in different parts of the world. Then she added that the renowned artist Bared Maronian’s film presents the Armenian woman from different aspects – as a rustic woman, patriot, Fedayeen, creator, embroiderer, and mother. Besides the Armenian women, the film, in a separate chapter, tells also about the foreign women. Those women were public figures, teachers, missionaries, who manifested remarkable humane features, left their own peaceful lives and stood up to defend the helpless Armenian people.
For about an hour and a half the spectators watched the scenes of severe disaster of the Armenian Genocide; the tortures and sufferings of the Armenian people, and the horrors that the Armenian women went through. However, the film at the same time showed their determination to survive, their will to live and struggle, and to help others to live. The film told also about those foreign philanthropist sisters who had left their peaceful countries and had rushed to the Armenian people to show support and to stretch out a helping hand so that they could save the Armenian orphans.
