HAVRESC: STAND ON COURAGE
There will be a one time screening, opening presentation and Q&A session with the director David Ritter at the
University Of California Berkeley, 105 North Gate Hall. February 10 @ 7:15 pm
Refreshments will be provided and admission is free.
Sponsored by – Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasia studies and the Armenian Studies program.
Filmmaker David Ritter has shot a documentary about a remarkable Armenian village somewhere in Iraq with about 200 to 500 people. It is surviving through courage, faith, fortitude and about 22 dedicated men against the massive force of the Islamic State group. Its name, Havresc, translates to big revenge, and its history dates back to 1915, when survivors of the Genocide constructed it, The Armenian Mirror-Spectator reports.
On December 8, the Zohrab Information Center hosted Ritter, who has spent months in the village, who presented his documentary titled, “Havresc, Stand on Courage”, to a large audience, detailing the daily struggles of Armenian and Assyrian Christian Iraqis and the village they have built on the edge of IS-controlled territory.
About the Film
HAVRESC: STAND ON COURAGE is a documentary on the struggles of Armenian and Assyrian Christian Iraqis and the village they have formed on the edge of ISIS controlled territory. Standing in the face of adversity, bigotry, hatred and oppression they have protected themselves from the Islamic state and created a community that is a home to all Christians facing persecution.
HAVRESC: STAND ON COURAGE
Directed by David Ritter
Narration by Jeff Gardner
Music by Michael Dunbar, Peter Bell and Christopher Freedom Laroche