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Armenia-Azerbaijan: Border

Posted 29 July 2010 6:35 GMT

Written byOnnik Krikorian

Countries	Armenia, Azerbaijan
Topics	Film, Refugees, War & Conflict, International Relations, Ethnicity & Race
Languages	English

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Português	· Armênia-Azerbaijão: "Border" [Fronteira]
Français	· Arménie-Azerbaïdjan : Une histoire de frontière

Armenia

This is cinemelo comments on Border, a 2009 film from director Harutyun Khachatryan. Ostensibly a tale of life in rural Armenia, the blog says that the most telling images come from barbed wire fences which illustrate the filmmaker's connection with his country and his hatred of the war and closed border with neighboring Azerbaijan.

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