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THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT

ԼԻՆՈՒՄ Է, ՉԻ ԼԻՆՈՒՄ

By Emily MKRTICHIAN

Documentary - Completed 2024

The first line of every Armenian fairy tale, THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT tells the collective myth
of a homeland lost forever — and four women’s resistance to that loss.

Festivals
& Awards

Mar Del Plata FF 2024

International Competition - Audience Award Winner

Golden Apricot - Yerevan IFF 2024

FIPRESCI Prize Winner

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Documentary, Female director, Social issues
- Countries
- USA, ARMENIA
- Languages
- ARMENIAN, ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 94 mn
- Director(s)
- Emily MKRTICHIAN
- Producer(s)
- Brock WILLIAMS, Emily MKRTICHIAN
- Synopsis
- 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, each woman’s life
  changes irrevocably. Their journey becomes the myth of a homeland lost forever, and the power
  of story to keep it alive.

THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT

ԼԻՆՈՒՄ Է, ՉԻ ԼԻՆՈՒՄ

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