In 2015, exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a director (Simon Abkarian) is staging a play at the Los Angeles Theatre to honor the victims of that crime, forgotten and denied for an entire century. The play stars his enigmatic wife (Angela Sarafyan) as an Armenian woman in 1915 who must make a controversial decision that will alter the course of history. But this will not be an ordinary performance. As protesters surround the theater before showtime, and a series of strange time-bending accidents spreads terror among the play’s cast (Sam Page, Nikolai Kinski, Sunny Suljic) and producer (Jim Piddock), it appears that Simon’s mission is far more personal and dangerous than anybody suspects – and the ghosts of 1915 are everywhere. Filmed almost entirely on location at the historic (and haunted) Los Angeles Theatre, 1915 was the first narrative feature film produced in the United States about the Armenian Genocide. It was the debut feature film performance of star actor Sunny Suljic, who was 8 at the time of filming. It features an original score composed by System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian. The massive demonstrations that the film depicts as a plot-point came to fruition when 160, 000 people conducted a “March for Justice” in LA alone on April 24, 2015.
