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Big Red House(2024)

The documentary sheds light on the lives of children who suffered physical and psychological trauma due to the terrorist attacks by Armenia on the eve of the Second Karabakh War.

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Amazing Azerbaijan!(2012)

Documentary feature & TV hour filmed in run-up to Eurovision 2012 in Baku, contrasting the Azerbaijan's glitzy image to their grim human rights record through personal stories.

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Revival

In 2020, when a French robotics student investigates his mother's guarded secret about his true Armenian identity, he jeopardizes his university AI competition to travel to Artsakh and gets entangled in an unexpected full-scale war where he must rely on the evolving consciousness of his AI creation to save his life and learn the truth.

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Architects of Denial(2017)

Though both the historical and modern-day persecution of Armenians and other Christians is relatively uncovered in the mainstream media and not on the radar of many average Americans, it is a subject that has gotten far more attention in recent years.

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8 Days in Captivity(2025)

The feature film reflects the terrible days of the tragedy and the suffering experienced through the example of Durdana Aghayeva and her brother Elshad Aghayev, who witnessed the Khojaly genocide and were subjected to severe torture for 8 days in Armenian captivity.

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The grave under the plum tree(2021)

He is Khagani Aliyev, a resident of Saricali village of Aghdam. On July 23, 1993, Khagani Aliyev, who heard about another Armenian attack on Aghdam, went home to take his parents who had not left the village to a temporary safe area...

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The Son(2021)

Using unpublished photos taken by Italian war photographer Enrico Sarsini, and the reconstruction of key events, this film examines the battle for a strategically-located church that was defended by Azerbaijani teenager Natig Gasimov. After his surrender and interrogation by Armenian forces, he was never heard of again. This film finds out what happened to Natig and who may be responsible. Filmed over a period of three years, filmmaker Karan Singh spoke to witnesses in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Italy and Russia in his search for the truth.

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Wishes For Golden Fish And Other Spices(2020)

In October, during the tense days of the Nagorno-Karabakh war, the director takes his camera to the village of Ashagi Nuvedi in Lankaran. The film follows the daily lives of fishermen — Sakhavat, Ramesh, Rza and Tehran — living in the shadow of the war. They go out to sea every morning amid news from the front, fearing empty nets, and hoping for a miracle — a goldfish in difficult days.

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The Line(2016)

Taking place in 1991, Tigran, who teaches math at a village school to avoid the army, loses the girl he loves. Consumed by abject wretchedness, he decides to enlist as a volunteer in the Nagorno‑Karabakh war to give meaning to his hollow life.

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Tunes of Sanatorium(2022)

For thirty years now, a dilapidated house has been providing essential asylum to war refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh. Three generations, including the children and grandchildren of people made to leave their homes, struggle to scratch an existence on the outskirts of Baku. They are faced with common problems: loss of home, outrooting, sadness and illnesses.

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Sholler's Archive(2018)

The events in the film are based on the life of the Scholler family of German origin, who lived in Azerbaijan since the 1940s.

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Special Forces Ibad(2016)

The film tells the story of the Karabakh veteran, cavalier of the Order of the "Azerbaijani Flag", National Hero of Azerbaijan, and commander of the intelligence unit, Ibad Huseynov.

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Hail(2012)

The film based on Agil Abbas's novel about Nagorno-Karabakh War. The film tells about the heroism of the sons of Azerbaijan, who fought for the Motherland to the last drop of blood in spite of everything in the Karabakh war.

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The Scream(1993)

Shot during the Nagorno-Karabakh War, "Fəryad" is only one of its kind. Following the Khojaly Massacre, Ismayil, an officer tasked with collecting the bodies, crosses enemy lines to avenge the brutal murder of a local schoolgirl. There he gets captured by Armenians and waits for the day to be exchanged for an enemy POW.

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Ones Left Behind(2025)

A couple returns to Aghdam, the city they once fled 32 years ago due to the war. It's a story about memory held in people, and about the small, powerful ways the past resurfaces when you finally face it.

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Endless Corridor(2014)

"Endless Corridor" is the definitive account of an agonizing human rights tragedy in which hundreds of Azerbaijanis massacred after Armenian Forces stormed the city of Khojaly during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. It happened in 1992, but the full story never been told throughout the world until now.

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Future Left Behind(2004)

Samad is a 14-year-old boy, living in a refugee camp in Imishli. After blacking out in the forest, he finds himself in the midst of the Nagorno-Karabakh War that happened ten years ago.

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Lie(2006)

The film is about the inner suffering and conflictions of Yavar, father of a soldier, who can't give the news of his son's death in the war to his heart-sick wife.

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Last Autumn(2022)

The film "Last Autumn", written and directed by Rustam Babazadeh, is a comedy genre with elements of grotesque and satire.

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45 Days: The Fight for a Nation(2021)

A feature documentary presented and directed by former Royal Marines Commando Emile Ghessen. The documentary tells the story of the 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh. In the fall of 2020, Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a brutal bloody war. Azerbaijan won, decisively. The feature documentary 45 Days: The Fight for a Nation tells the story of this conflict, from the Armenian perspective, focusing on the human cost of war and its impact on the large Armenian diaspora.

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