Maria Vardanyan

Grandma's Tattoos is a powerful documentary that reveals the fate of thousands of forgotten women, mostly teenagers and young girls, who survived the 1915 Armenian Genocide but were forced into prostitution by their captors. Many of these women were tattooed as a permanent mark of their status.

Motivada por el carácter huraño de su abuela, un ser misterioso que llevaba guantes de forma permanente y que transmitía miedo y distancia en lugar de esa ternura propia de los mayores de la familia, la periodista y directora Suzanne Khardalian en su documental Los tatuajes de mi abuela, rescata del olvido a aquellas mujeres armenias sobrevivientes que fueron violadas por los turcos y obligadas a vivir como prostitutas en los harenes, donde las marcaban por todo el cuerpo.

1870's America. A Chinese immigrant falsely accused of murdering a white woman is viciously hunted down; he'll have to prove his innocence in a time when people of color had "no legal rights" and could be bought and sold for a profit. Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance explores the exploitation of Chinese workers during the building of American railroads. The workers not only spent long hours, but the work was often dangerous and fatal. The Chinaman is a fugitive on the run, and all odds are against him. While stealing a horse was a hanging offense in the Old West, our fugitive knows that killing a Chinaman is not a crime.