Karabakh drama wins 4 awards at Ontario Int'l Film Festival

Karabakh drama wins 4 awards at Ontario Int'l Film Festival

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Gate to Heaven", a film about the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) conflict, has won four awards Ontario International Film Festival ONIFF, the Festival reveals in a Facebook post.

"Congratulations to the team behind "Gate to Heaven" for winning 4 of our prestigious awards including best sound, music and script for an international film and best international film," ONIFF said.

"We were honored to showcase this film at our festival this year."

Set during the 2016 four-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh in the Caucasus Mountains, the story centers around Robert Sternvall (Richard Sammel), a German journalist who returns to the region to cover the armed conflict. During his journalistic investigation, Robert meets a young opera singer (Tatiana Spivakova), who happens to be the daughter of missing photojournalist Edgar Martirosyan, whom Robert had previously abandoned in captivity during the fall of the village of Talish in 1992. Robert and Sophia's frequent rendezvouses ignite a passionate romance.

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