Q&A with filmmaker Dr. Carla Garapedian of the Armenian Film Foundation and Dr. James Steffen. Restored by Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation, The Color of Pomegranates is a can't-miss for students of film. Its director graduated from the Soviet Russian All-Union State Institute of Cinema in Moscow in 1951 but was jailed soon after the film's original release, courtesy of Soviet authorities. A chronicle of the life of Sayat Nova, the revered Armenian troubadour, it is no standard biopic but instead a cinematic poem.

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.