“To Witness Is to Remember”: An Interview with Emily Mkrtichian
In 2018, filmmaker Emily Mkrtichian began work on what she envisioned as a quiet, contemplative documentary—a portrait of women in Artsakh, the ethnically Armenian region nestled in the South Caucasus, long disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Her camera followed four extraordinary women: a minesweeper clearing remnants of past wars, a young judo champion pushing past […]