Musa Dagh: The Road Home

During the 1915 Armenian Genocide, the residents of six Armenian villages – Kabusia, Vakifli, Kheter Bey, Yoghunoluk, Haji Habibli and Bitias – surrounding the Musa Mountain (Musa Dagh) refused to follow the Ottoman Empire’s deportation decree and organized a self-defense. There were about 5000 of them, but only 600 were fighters with limited supply of weapons and ammunition. Eventually, thanks to their heroism and the arrival of French military vessels, they were able to save their lives. The film is a road movie about an Armenian family from Yerevan visiting the land of their ancestors to attend the festivities of the Virgin Mary, celebrated each year in August in Turkey’s only remaining Armenian village Vakifli, and commemorate those days on Musa Dagh.