Ani Balayan News Today

Ani Balayan spent weeks documenting how an ethnic Armenian family struggled with food shortages during Azerbaijan's blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh. But just as she was completing the project for her journalism studies in Yerevan, Azerbaijani forces overran the territory. Balayan was not only cut off from the film's protagonists, her own family was also caught up in the fighting.

By its destruction and desecration of the Armenian religious and cultural heritage, its obliterations of centuries old cemeteries and cross-stones, and its