Описание
2024, USA/Armenia, 94
min.
Director: Emily Mkrtichian
There Was, There Was
Not follows four women living in the
Republic of Artsakh, an unrecognized country reckoning with the aftermath of
one war while on the precipice of another. In the midst of this uncertainty,
four women build a life with the hope of making their home a better place. When
war breaks out again, what began as an observational meditation on women’s
roles, after conflict becomes an urgent and intimate record of their lives
interrupted once again by war. From taking up arms on the front lines to
fleeing their homes as refugees, we watch each woman’s life change irrevocably.
The war ends in the unimaginable: the complete ethnic cleansing and erasure of
their homeland. Amid these women's struggle for survival in a new reality, this
film becomes the myth of a home lost forever, and the power of story to keep it
alive.