Story of People in War and Peace, A  Armenia
2007, 90min.
Dir./Prod.: Vardan Hovhannisyan, Dir. of Phot.: Vahagn Ter-Hakopyan, Vardan Hovhannisyan, Edit.: Tigran Baghinyan.
"Recently, my young son came up to me. He had seen my old uniform hanging in the closet. He asked me, 'Daddy, are you a warrior?' and I didn't know how to respond to him". It was this moment that Vardan Hovhannisyan describes as the turning point when he knew he needed to return to the archive footage he shot during the Karabagh war.
"The film combines strong and unique archival war footage from the trenches of a 20 meter battlefield with the human and touching stories of the survivors who are now living on in peace time. Twelve years later I had the opportunity to follow them over a year-long shooting period and was able to create a very close and intimate portrait of their lives and their universal stories".
Awards
Tribeca, 2007 (Best New Documentary Filmmaker Award) | Hovhannisyan, Vardan Vardan Hovhannisyan (born )
He began his career as a freelance cameraman and covering the hot regions and ethnic conflicts related to the post-Soviet transition for international news agencies ( CBS News, WDR, Australian Broadcast Corporation and the World Monitor). In 1993 he founded Bars Media Documentary Film Studio and began working on documentaries about post-Soviet Armenia.
Filmography
Prison Art ( ), Non-Stop ( ), To Be and Never Forget ( ), Winter Melody ( ), A Story of People in War and Peace (2007).
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