FAR FROM MICHIGAN

Silva Khnkanosian / 77’ / 2023 / Armenia, Francia

Direction: Silva Khnkanosian

Production: La Huit Production

Script: Silva Khnkanosian

Editing: Justine Hiriart

Cinematography: Areg Hakobyan

Sound: Jean-Marc Schick

Armenia and Azerbaijan are engaged in a multi-secular conflict. A war breaks out again. In Stepanakert, capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, men are at the front, women hide in the cellars. Life is organized under the bombs; women follow the war on the radio or checking their phones. No one sees defeat as an option. Yet after 44
days of battles, radio announces the capitulation of Armenia. We must leave…

SILVA KHNKANOSIAN, is a director and
photographer. She made her first film at 21, Nothing to
be afraid of. The film follows five women doing civilian
mine clearance on the Armenian border. It has been
selected at Dok Leipzig, IFFR Rotterdam, Fipadoc, FICCI
Cartagena. In 2020, at the start of the 44-day war, Silva
left to shoot in Stepanakaert. Far from Michigan is her
second feature film.

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