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directed by Elene Naveriani 4
A village at the Georgian Black Sea with friendly people believing to know each other. One day, Eliko is found hanged and his granddaughter Moe is called to organise the funeral. She is confronted with a web of lies and the tragic consequences of Eliko’s hidden love life with Amnon over the last twenty-two years. The truth however frees Moe’s capability to love and provokes the villagers to take a stand.
Fiction
WORLD RIGHTS: maximage, Zurich www.maximage.ch WORLD PREMIERE: Locarno Film Festival 2021 INTERNATIONAL PRESS: maximage Cornelia Seitler info@maximage.ch T +41 78 712 03 11
SWITZERLAND / GEORGIA Fiction, 115 min., 2021 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Georgian SCREENPLAY: Elene Naveriani, Sandro Naveriani CAST: Bebe Sesitashvili, Megi Kobaladze, Gia Agumava, Giorgi Tsereteli, Kakha Kobaladze, Eka Chavleishvili, Zaal Goguadze PRODUCTION: maximage, Zurich / Takes Film, Tbilisi / SRF SWISS PRODUCERS: Cornelia Seitler, Brigitte Hofer
ELENE NAVERIANI * 1985 in Georgia. Elene Naveriani studied Painting at State Academy of Art in Tbilisi. In 2011 they received their Master in Critical Curatorial Cybermedia, in 2014 their Bachelor in Film from Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève). Their first feature I AM TRULY A DROP OF SUN ON EARTH (2017) premiered at IFFR and won awards at Entrevues Belfort and Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid. Their short RED ANTS BITE (2019) premiered at IFFR.