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CPH:DOX 2024
CPH:DOX 2024
A warm and understatedly humourous film about a Georgian family's project to start a blueberry farm in an area where old conflicts rumble underground. A young film from the old world, where the family's two sons dream of a different future.
A warm and understatedly humourous film about a Georgian family's project to start a blueberry farm in an area where old conflicts rumble underground. A young film from the old world, where the family's two sons dream of a different future.
Led by the good-hearted father Soso, a family of four starts a blueberry farm to secure their future together. But with a home in northern Georgia, their village is close to the troubled border with the Russian-backed region of Abkhazia, where new conflicts have been rumbling for 30 years. Soso is a retired engineer, but together with his wife Nino and their sons Giorgi and Lazare, he throws himself into the ‘Plant the Future’ programme set up by the Georgian authorities to stabilise the area. Nino is haunted by memories of the war and dreams of her children experiencing the world, while Soso wants to maintain their connection to the land. But Giorgi and Lazare long for a different future, immersing themselves in anime and dreaming of visiting Japan. In the midst of their daily lives, the family navigates between hardship, joy and contemplation of a different future.
Led by the good-hearted father Soso, a family of four starts a blueberry farm to secure their future together. But with a home in northern Georgia, their village is close to the troubled border with the Russian-backed region of Abkhazia, where new conflicts have been rumbling for 30 years. Soso is a retired engineer, but together with his wife Nino and their sons Giorgi and Lazare, he throws himself into the ‘Plant the Future’ programme set up by the Georgian authorities to stabilise the area. Nino is haunted by memories of the war and dreams of her children experiencing the world, while Soso wants to maintain their connection to the land. But Giorgi and Lazare long for a different future, immersing themselves in anime and dreaming of visiting Japan. In the midst of their daily lives, the family navigates between hardship, joy and contemplation of a different future.
Technical Information
Technical Information
Georgia, France, Belgium, Qatar | 76 min. and 52 min. | HD | 16:9 | Color | Georgian | Sound 5.1
Cast & Crew
Cast & Crew
With: Lazare Meladze, Giorgi Meladze, Nino Torchinava, Soso Meladze
Director: Elene Mikaberidze
Writer: Elene Mikaberidze
Producer: Elene Margvelashvili
Co-Producers: Baptiste Brunner, Isabelle Truc
Production company: Parachute Films (Georgia)
Co-production companies: Wide Studios (France), Iota Production (Belgium)
DoP: Patrick Wendt
Camera and editing consultant: Elia Pharsadanishvili
Image editing: Yannick Leroy, Philippe Boucq
Sound editing: Marco Pascal
Sound Mixing: Jordan Trolho
Color Grading: Damien Pelletier Brun, Charles Dubouchet, Niko Tarielashvili
Festivals
Festivals
CPH:DOX 2024 – World Premiere
Next:Wave Competition
Brussels International Film Festival – International Premiere
Les Rencontres d'Arles – European Premiere
Odesa International Film Festival – Regional Premiere
Al Jazeera Documentary Film Festival – Baltic Premiere
Batumi International Film Festival
Kutaisi International Short Film Festival
Montpellier International Mediterranean Film Festival – CinéMED
DOK Leipzig – International Competition
Gantiadi Festival Berlin
Festival International du Film sur le Patrimoine – Paris
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Tbilisi International Film Festival
Festival de Cinéma Univerciné – Nantes
Winner: Jury Award, Audience Award & Grand Prix
Stadtkino Basel
goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film – Wiesbaden
Santarém International Film Festival
Winner: Jury Award
Al Este International Film Festival – Lima
Friedensbüro der Stadt Augsburg
FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival – Portugal
Al Este International Film Festival – Bogotá
Teacup – Georgian Film Festival – Munich
RIFE Film Festival – Smolyan
Allerweltskino Film Series – Cologne
DOK Leipzig Sommerkino
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