The Border Within Us

A hitchhike along a new border in southeastern Armenia becomes a journey within a human landscape. People try to show us the border and share stories of how it affects their lives. They sing about the soil on the other side and mourn what has been lost. This was once an area where people of different groups lived together, but wars and forced migrations have transformed a “we” into “us and them”. The border is very real and impossible to cross. But it is abstract and invisible in the landscape. Where is it? Is it inside us?

Crew

Knutte Wester

Director, Director of Photography

Jesper Osmund

Editor

Andreas Österholm

Producer

Mikael Brodin

Sound Mixer

Artavazd Abrahamyan

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Arnik Voskanyan

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Golaz Khachatryan

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Greta Harutyunyan

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Igor Chopchiyan

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Eghishe Chopchiyan

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Lousine Avagyan

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Elen Matevosyan

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Liana Stepanyan

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Mane Stepanyan

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Lilit Hovakimyan

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Manustak Khachatryan

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Zoya Avanesyan

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Vladimir Galstyan

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