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Shoghakat Vardanyan standing in front of a picture of her brother, Soghomon Vardanyan. Film still.
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Armenia’s National Film Academy snubs award-winning Nagorno-Karabakh  documentary

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A decision by Armenia’s national film academy to nominate a film by one of its board members to the Oscars over an award-winning documentary centred on the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War has caused controversy in the country. Produced in 2023, Shoghakat Vardanyan’s debut feature documentary 1489 focuses on her family’s two-year search to find her brother, Soghomon Vardanyan, a conscript who went missing during the first days of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. The title refers to the number assigne

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