A Q&A with filmmaker Dr. Carla Garapedian of the Armenian Film Foundation and linguistics scholar Amir Sharifi following screening of Vodka Lemon. The central character in this comedy set amid a snowy Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia is Hamo, a widower with three worthless sons. Hamo is so poor that he's about to sell off his treasured military uniform when he meets Nina, a lovely widow who works at the village's sparsely attended bar, Vodka Lemon, which is about to close.

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, we dedicate 2015 to an exploration of multiple facets of Armenian culture, history, and landscape through film in our series I Am Armenian.