Blocus
de Hakob Melkonyan
(Documentaire, Arménie/France, 2020, 85’, C, VOSTF)

Depuis trente ans, les habitants de Chinari, petit village arménien, tentent de survivre à la guerre qui se déroule à la frontière entre les arméniens et les azéris, et aux conditions difficiles imposées par une situation de blocus. C’est donc à travers le quotidien d’une famille arménienne du village de Chinari que ce film nous plonge au cœur d’un conflit oublié.
« 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