"I left My Shoes in Istanbul", a film by Nigol Bezjian

Film Screening and Q&A with the director and producer Nigol Bezjian chaired by Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci

The film captures the experience of a Lebanese born Armenian poet’s first visit to Istanbul, where the roots of his culture are found.

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Synopsis.

The film closely follows A Lebanese Armenian poet; embodied by Sako Arian, who embarks onto a journey that has been delayed for a century; the return to his ancestral city of Istanbul, where his cultural and literally roots are found.  Sako tours the old streets of Istanbul once populated by Armenians, the ancient cemeteries and the poets buried in them, the old churches and more than a century old high school. He meets the young and the old, the famed and the humble, Armenians and Turks, listens to their stories, their opinions, he laughs and shares food with them. 

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