SYNOPSIS
A documentary on the violent displacement of people in the Nagorno-Karabakh region during the hostilities in the autumn of 2020 and after a fragile agreement was reached between Armenia and Azerbaijan. A cinematic recording of the uprooting and wandering of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, using the pomegranate as its central axis; people who have counted thousands of deaths over the past four decades, and their movement in gray and rainy landscapes where no one knows what is their own, where their borders are and what their homeland is.
CAST & CREW
Thomas Sideris
Director
Producer(s)
Penelope Makrynioti
Script
Thomas Sideris
Director of Photography
Ismael Dimitriev, George Halabalakis, Selahattin Sevi
Music by
Christos Tsiamoulis
Sound
Oleg Palavik, Vasilis Chaniotis, Michael Sigletos
Edit
George Halabalakis
Production company(ies)
Oros Films
Thomas Sideris
He is a director and investigative journalist. For three years in a row (2018, 2019, 2021), he was on the shortlist for the Prix Europa, an award presented to the European journalist of the year. Most of his research and film work focuses on the field of human rights. He has a postgraduate diploma in Human and Social Geography on the subject “Human body and space”. He is a PhD candidate in Human and Social Geography, focusing on wandering people, refugees and migrants. He has been honored with the Torch Award in the USA (human rights advocacy via his films, Pennsylvania, 2021). He is a formal member of the International Press Institute and an advisory member of Journalist and Writers Foundation based in New York.
Filmography
The Noose (2016), The Muddy River of Baasim (2020), Exodus (2021), Let Me Breathe (2021), The Pomegranates of Nagorno-Karabakh (2022).
