Blockade / Blocus

For thirty years, the inhabitants of Chinari, a small Armenian village, have been trying to survive the war on the border between the Armenians and the Azeris, and the difficult conditions imposed by the blockade. It is through the daily life of an Armenian family in the village of Chinari that this film plunges us into the heart of a forgotten conflict.

« Through the portrait of a family, my film plunges the viewer into the heart of this forgotten conflict. Nagorno-Karabakh proclaimed its independence in 1991, tearing itself away from Azerbaijan at the price of a bloody war… This war killed nearly 30,000 people and drove hundreds of thousands of refugees from their homes. The signing of a ceasefire in 1994 did not resolve the conflict … Besides the soldiers, the main victims are the inhabitants of the villages near the border … My film plunges the spectator into the heart of a war completely forgotten by the world. » Hakob Melkonyan triestefilmfestival.it