There's No Place Like Home is a documentary from Diana Madison telling the story of Artsakh's Armenians in their own words — the blockade, the forced displacement, and the meaning of a homeland that can be taken but not erased.

In September 2023, more than a hundred thousand Armenians left Artsakh in a matter of days. They left behind villages their families had lived in for centuries, churches carved into hillsides, and graves they could not take with them. There's No Place Like Home is the story of that departure, told by the people who made it.

Filmed on the ground in Goris as displaced families crossed into Armenia, and later in Van Ardi, the documentary gathers first-hand accounts of the nine-month blockade that preceded the exodus and of the journey out. There are no talking-head experts here and no geopolitical scoreboard — only the people themselves, describing what they endured and what they carried.

What emerges is a portrait of home as something larger than a house. As director Diana Madison puts it, home is not a physical structure; it is centuries of generations having lived on sacred land. The land was taken. The spirit was not.

The film was made almost entirely by an Armenian crew, including videographer Arnold Ghazaryan, a veteran of the 2020 Artsakh War. It was born, in Madison's words, out of frustration that "our stories were being manipulated by propaganda and oil money" — an effort to put the record in the hands of those who lived it.

Written and Directed by Diana Madison Produced by Diana Madison, Ruzanna Kegeyan, Gohar Khojabagyan, Shant Petrossian Producer Arman Nshanian Edited by Tigran Baghinyan Original Score by Grigor Abgaryan Executive Producers Ani Vorskanyan, Asko Akopyan, Strobia Foundation, Michelle Shrikian, Jacqueline Lion, Steven Konsker, Bonnie Voland, Anna Magzanyan

Diana Madison Productions, People of AR Productions and 374Collective Productions present an AVA Films Real Production Inc. production