Screening: ‘Lark Farm’ (New York)

FEB. 22, 2011 *  Screening: ‘Lark Farm’: The Armenian Society of Columbia University and the Armenian Center at Columbia University, in association with the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), present a talk by author Antonia Arslan and a screening of the film “The Lark Farm .” Film begins at 6 p.m., talk at 8 p.m., in Havemeyer Hall, Room 209, Columbia University in New York (for directions, visit www.ieor.columbia.edu/pdf-files/Havemeyer_Map.pdf). Arslan’s talk will be preceded by a screening of the “The Lark Farm,” based on her best-selling novel, La masseria delle allodole (Rizzoli, 2004), translated into English as Skylark Farm (Knopf, 2008). The film, staring Paz Vega and Arsinee Khanjian, was adapted in 2007 by legendary Italian filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. The film marks one of the few international features to tackle the Armenian Genocide head-on. Drawing on the history of her own recent ancestors, it tells of the attempts of the members of an Armenian family caught up in the massacres to escape to Italy and join a relation who had been living there for 40 years. Arslan is a professor of modern and contemporary Italian literature at the University of Padua, Italy.