Karabakh Revival Fund holds first private screening of the Deadly Legacy documentary

Deadly Legacy, a documentary commissioned by the Karabakh Revival Fund and produced by Beach House Pictures, was shown for the first time in Baku on 2 September 2026.

The private screening took place at “Humanitarian demining for urban recovery: Defining best practice standards for safe resettlement”, an international conference convened in Baku by the Mine Action Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan (ANAMA) and the United Nations.

Among those attending were Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration; Mukhtar Babayev, the President’s Representative on Climate Issues; Rahman Hajiyev, Chairman of the Board of the Karabakh Revival Fund; and Vugar Suleymanov, Chairman of the Board of ANAMA, alongside members of the Milli Majlis, foreign ambassadors, representatives of international organisations, the Fund’s donors and partners, and members of the media and the public.

The film sets out, on the evidence, President Ilham Aliyev’s efforts to end mine terror and to have humanitarian demining recognised as the 18th Sustainable Development Goal. It measures the scale of contamination across the territories liberated from occupation, and makes the case that landmines are not one country’s misfortune but a global emergency — a humanitarian tragedy that has taken or altered thousands of innocent lives. Shot in Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia and Laos, it is built on interviews with national and international experts and officials, and on the testimony of those who have lived with the consequences.

Speaking before the screening, Rahman Hajiyev, executive producer Faig Bagirov and director Alison Jayne Wilson discussed the thinking behind the film and what they hope audiences take from it.

Afterwards, Hikmet Hajiyev gave his impressions of the film and thanked the team that made it.

Guests were each given a copy of The Revival of Karabakh: The Story of Azerbaijan’s Renaissance, a book commissioned by the Fund and written by the British author Graeme Wilson.