Directed by Daniel Kötter • 2022 • Armenia/Germany

Daniel Kötter’s documentary road movie journeys through the stunning but troubled mountain landscape of eastern Armenia in an attempt to unravel the relationship between war, displacement, and extractivism. Centred around the Sotk gold mine, occupied by Azerbaijani forces during the 2020 Karabakh War, Kötter’s film is alive to both the human and the non-human actors at work in this disputed territory, where war and resource extraction have become two sides of the same coin, deadly processes waged over the population by distant forces. Influenced by the psychogeographical style of Patrick Keiller, this is a thought-provoking and unsettling vision of life in the borderlands.

LANDSHAFT • Լանդշաֆտ
Written, directed, and cinematography by Daniel Kötter
Sound by Armen Papyan and Luka Barajević

In Armenian with English subtitles