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FIGHT

By Lilit MOVSISYAN

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Female director - Completed 2024

As war continues between Armenia and Azerbaijan, life goes on. Karine, a 16-year-old dancer, is about to finish school in Armenia. Her father raises fighting dogs. Her family hopes she'll get into dance school, marry, and become a traditional housewife. But Karine wants to be a vet

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Female director, Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- ARMENIA, FRANCE
- Languages
- ARMENIAN
- Duration
- 72 mn
- Director(s)
- Lilit MOVSISYAN
- Synopsis
- Armenia is in a state of change, dealing with attacks from a neighboring country and internal debates about its future. For Karine, this means that she must decide which path in life to follow when she leaves school. Growing up in a rural family that breeds dog for ritualistic dog fighting, the clear path for her is to become a Kochari dancer before finding a man, marrying, and becoming a housewife. Karine, however, learned to tend to wounded dogs from her father and now she wants to become a vet with her own clinic so that she can help animals
  
  As Armenia debates on a national level whether or not to ban dog fighting, Karine's home becomes a place of debate in which different perspectives are able to be discussed openly. Assumptions that underpin her family's conservative ideology are scrutinised by Karine until slowly they find themselves agreeing with her more then they disagree.
  
  Fight is an optimistic vision of change in which a family learns to live more deliberately.