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In 2017, after three years under the control of the Islamic State (ISIS), the people of Mosul, Iraq fought to reclaim their city. The nine-month battle to liberate Mosul was marked by catastrophic violence, especially in the historic Old City. […]

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]]> A Conversation with Emily Mkrtichian (THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/emily-mkrtichian/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:10:16 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54284

It may be incongruous to characterize a film about war and destruction as “gentle,” or a film of loss and ethnic cleaning as “tender,” but Emily Mkrtichian’s debut feature There Was, There Was Not is a film that continuously breaks […]

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