"If the wind drops" and the Nagorno-Karabakh tragedy
Nora Martirosyan in studio at RFI, for the program Tous les cinémas du monde.
© Sophie Torlotin / RFI
By: Sophie Torlotin Follow |
Elisabeth Lequeret Follow
2 min
What is the foundation of a country?
A people?
A tongue ?
A religion ?
A community of destiny?
A film released on Wednesday (May 26, 2021) takes us to a territory that was entitled to newspaper headlines just a few months ago: Nagorno-Karabakh, this territory as large as a French department, a mountainous enclave located in Azerbaijan. , but of Armenian population.
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At the time of the explosion of the USSR, Nagorno-Karabakh declared its independence in 1991, leading to a first conflict.
Three years later, a signed ceasefire, Nagorno-Karabakh renamed itself Republic of Artsakh, but the state is not recognized by any country.
And it is in Stepanakert that a Frenchman disembarks, played by Grégoire Colin, responsible for carrying out an audit of the airport to find out whether or not he can open.
The film, entitled
If the Wind Falls
, is the first feature film by the visual artist of Armenian origin Nora Martirosyan.
Also showing at our cinema this week,
another feature film, that of a comic book author Nine Antico, with
Playlist.
We will also go to
Mayotte
where a former student of Femis introduced passionate high school students to cinema, and then in
Italy
, to take stock of the reopening of theaters.
Musical breaks:
Lou Doillon and Cat Power
It’s you
and
November Ultra
Miel.
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