They Say We Have to Leave
Switzerland, September 2025
XR / IMMERSIVE,
Documentary, Experimental,
120 min.
- directed by
- Varsy Buchmann
- Written by
- Varsy Buchmann
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- https://wehavetoleave.com
- IMDb Link
- imdb.com
September 2023: 120,000 Armenians are ethnically cleansed from Artsakh. This immersive installation constructs a sanctuary for their history through the voices of 120 displaced women. Weaving silent, unblinking portraits with AI-generated rivers of oil that obliterate sacred sites, the work juxtaposes the cold brutality of geopolitical erasure against the warmth of raw home video archives. It forces a physical confrontation with global indifference, demanding the viewer witness the resilience of a people whose homeland now survives only in these fragments of memory.
credits
- World Premiere
- September 2025
- Original Version
- Armenian, colour, Immersive format, 120 min.
- Production
- point de vue
- Producer
- Varsy Buchmann, Andreas Weber
- directed by
- Varsy Buchmann
- Written by
- Varsy Buchmann
- Cinematography
- Artyom Abovyan
- Editing
- Nathan Ornick
- Sound Design
- Armen Papyan
- Music
- Arsen Babajanyan
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- point de vue