The Black Garden review – haunting study of growing up in war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh
Alexis Pazoumian’s documentary follows Samvel and Avo, two preteen boys whose lives will be unavoidably scarred by brutal conflictAfter the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, a decades-long territorial dispute exploded in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, as its largely Armenian population fought against countless military campaigns from the Azerbaijani army. Shot over the course of three eventful years, which culminated in the surrender of Nagorno-Karabakh’s separatist government in 2023, Alexis Pazoumian’s haunting documentary harnesses the collective turmoil that dominated generations of…
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