The director Alexandra Routhiau Mikaélian, French of Armenian origin, made a promise to her grandfather, to find the members of their family in Turkey based on a simple name, Shahimé, this sister he was never able to meet. From this journey through time in search of the living, Alexandra will lift the veil of one of the most deeply rooted taboos in Turkish society, those for which you still risk your life. This story is the stories of these millions of Armenians and Turks, those we call the «hidden Armenians» or the «remnants of the sword» descendants of women and children converted and forcibly integrated into the Turkish population during the Armenians genocide. For the first time, we tell the missing stories of these women, victims of the genocide, the Armenian grandmothers who passed on their stories by whispering. As the writer and lawyer Féthiye Cetin, who appears in the film, explains: «Every Turk discovers that he may have Armenian blood in his veins and every Armenian, including in the diaspora, realizes that he may have Muslim cousins in Turkey»․ 110 years after the events of 1915, it is time to open the book of this common history in a documentary but above all the doors of silence, to finally be able to wound together and build bridges towards reconciliation.

Cast & Crew
Producer : Julien Vaillant Ciaparra
Director: Alexandra Routhiau Mikaélian
Script : Alexandra Routhiau Mikaélian
Director of Photography: Gabrielle Lubtchansky
Music: Jean Garois
Editing : Julie Baltaian
Production : Scenius Productions, Gianni Productions

Alexandra Routhiau Mikaélian
After ten years spent in the field as a reporter, then as chief editor of the TF1 group's news sections, Alexandra Routhiau Mikaélian writes and produces "magazine" formats for public service channels. In 2019, she signed her first feature-length documentary for the Canal Plus group in immersion with the Paris firefighters in commando. Then in 2020, she launched her production company (Gianni Prod) and created original, committed and engaging content for digital. At the same time, she joined the Fémis documentary workshop. Routhiau Mikaélian writes, directs, and co-produces the film Memory through our veins. Today, it continues to develop new creative programs and documentaries with always the same intention, to highlight ordinary heroes, heroines, its era, and society in the greatest richness of its diversity.

Filmography
Armenians, The Hidden Grandmothers (Memory through Our Veins, doc., 2024)․