Tbilisi-Tbilisi

”Professors are selling margarine while salesmen have become ministers.” These words are uttered in the presence of Dato, a young film maker, who doesn’t have any money and spends His days hanging around town, drinking and watching people. In struggling Tbilisi, where everything is for sale and culture has no value, this personal film brings together and dramatizes a diverse group of people. There is the aforementioned film professor who gives away his dissertation on world cinema to a woman who needs paper for the sunflower seeds she is selling, pickpocket Tado, who has to pay off the local police, his alcoholic sister who sells sex to violent men and Nona, a young girl who became mute when her parents where killed in the Abkhazian war and now takes care of her sick brother. These and a handful of other people not only inhabit Tbilisi but also come to life in the screenplay Dato is working on.It took director and writer Levan Zakareishvili eight years and a war to complete the film about his native Tbilisi. The film is an unobtrusive statement about the situation and what it means to him – not only as a habitant but even more as a film maker – and to his hometown.SARAH PÅLVALL

Premiärstatus
Nordisk premiär: Medverkande
Giorgi Maskharashvili, Eka Nijaradze: Producent
Levan Zakareishvili: Manus
Levan Zakareishvili: Foto
Archil Akhvlediani: Musik
Niaz Diasamidze: Talat språk
Georgian