When Home Becomes a Prison and a Window Becomes the World Amerikatsi (2022) is a deeply moving drama written, directed, and starred in by Michael A. Goorjian , exploring what it means to belong to a homeland you’ve never truly known. Set in 1947 Soviet Armenia , the film follows Charlie Bakhchinyan , an Armenian-American who returns to his ancestral country after surviving the genocide as a child — only to find himself wrongly imprisoned by the Soviet regime. From his prison cell, Charlie…
