The solemn opening ceremony of the Salento International Film Festival took place with the screening of “Gate to Heaven”, a film about the April 2016 war in Artsakh by Jivan Avetisyan, the Union of Cinematographers of Armenia reported on Friday.
“Gate to Heaven” centers around 50-year-old Robert Stenvall, a European journalist, who returns to Artsakh in 2016 to cover the war which has been reignited after a 22-year ceasefire. During his time in Artsakh, Stenvall meets Sophia Marti, 35, a young opera singer, who happens to be the daughter of missing photojournalist Edgar Martirosyan, who...
