Imbued with poetry and surrealism, the story is invented, but the airport, lost in the vast mountain ranges of the Caucasus, does exist, as does its difficulties in opening.“Physically I had everything, the fields, the buildings, the president, but on Google Earth I had nothing,” says Nora Martirosyan to explain the state of mind in which she made this film, to meet a need for recognition. “In my fiction this is what I say: the hope of recognition is symbolized by this airport. It is an institution capable of linking a non-existent country to the world,” she says.
Source: Artsakh, A Small Country That Now Only Exists in Cinema – The Armenian Mirror-Spectator