Documentary featuring Armenian who was persecuted in Azerbaijan wins  Oscar

ArmInfo.n. "The Last Repair Shop", a short documentary featuring an Armenian man who was  persecuted in the 1980s in Azerbaijan, won an Oscar at the 96th Academy Awards. The film is directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers. 

As stated on the website of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and  Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.), "The Last Repair Shop" won in the "Documentary  Short Film" category.

The documentary tells the story of four devoted craftspeople who help  keep over 80,000 student musical instruments in good repair in the  city of Los Angeles, led by the charming general manager, Steve  Bagmanyan, who faced ethnic persecution in Azerbaijan in the 1980s.  The film blends the unexpectedly intimate personal histories of the  repair people with emotional, firsthand accounts from the actual  student musicians for whom their instruments made all the difference.

"The Last Repair Shop" was selected for the Oscar shortlist out of  114 films presented in the "Short Documentary Film" category.  "The  Last Repair Shop" is now available to watch on Disney+ and Hulu as  well as on The Times' YouTube channel and latimes.com, as part of the  L.A. Times Short Docs series.The film premiered in September 2023 at  the 50th Telluride Film Festival. In November 2023, the film was  named Best Documentary Short at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards  in New York.

Notably, 20 Days in Mariupol, directed by Mstyslav Chernov, won the  Oscar for Best Documentary Feature . The film tells the story of the  20 days that Chernov spent with his colleagues in besieged Mariupol  after the start of Russia's military invasion of Ukraine.