‘There Was, There Was Not’ Team Discuss How Their Artsakh War Documentary Offers “Resistance To Erasure”

‘There Was, There Was Not’ Team Discuss How Their Artsakh War Documentary Offers “Resistance To Erasure”

Filmmaker Emily Mkrtichian didn’t know she would be making a war documentary when she embarked on her near-decade-in-the-making feature There Was, There Was Not. What began as a project aiming to explore the lives of four disparate women in post-conflict Artsakh changed almost overnight as the long-beleaguered breakaway state, sandwiched between Azerbaijan and Armenia, became…

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‘Sunny Side Of The Doc’ Managing Director Aurélie Reman On The Importance Of Optimism In A Changing World: “We Try To Build Bridges”

‘Sunny Side Of The Doc’ Managing Director Aurélie Reman On The Importance Of Optimism In A Changing World: “We Try To Build Bridges”

Everything outside may be going to hell, but Sunny Side of the Doc might be the non-fiction world’s only real happy place right now. Currently in its 35th year, the event is a testament to the resilience of documentary filmmaking, both in its ongoing support for reality-based storytelling in all its many forms but also…

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