There Was, There Was Not

This is a very well crafted film showcasing 4 women: a deminer, a sports women who later becomes a fighter, an activist and a women right's defender before and after the 44 day war of 2020 between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

In Armenian when telling a fairy tale we don't start with "once upon a time" we say "linum e chi linum" or "kar chkar" which both stand for "There was and there was not". This is the starting point of the film, that tells us the sorry of a land of a country Artsakh that there was and now does not exist, so the film uses this narrative all the way through till the end and it works well to feel and understand the hardship all these people went through while living and fighting for Artsakh.