Armenian-Swiss co-production Flying Cows was among the winners of the Docu Talent awards, held by Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival as part of Sarajevo Film Festival.

Vahagn Khachatryan and Aren Malakyan’s film won the €25,000 in-kind Avanpost Post-production aaward. Flying Cows follows a calf, born during the chaos of the Armenia-Azerbaijan war, which is then sold to cattle traders and transported to Iraq. The film is aiming to premiere in the first half of 2026; producers are Khachatryan for Armenia’s Oolik Production and Irene Munoz Martin.

The Docu Talents jury said “This engaging, emotive project promises an animal’s journey that is scary, surreal and troubling. Flying Cows polarised the jury, eliciting strong responses from all of us; what we agreed on is that

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