Special Programs in Focus

• Turkey,Greece,France
• 2014
• 129min

Bachelor Nihat accepts a dinner invitation from colleague Ayse and is surprised to find he looks just like Ayse’s husband?who is in prison. Regardless, they start a relationship that borders on consolation and flirts with danger, ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia
• 2014
• 102min

Under the Soviet regime with vibrant revolutionary spirits, Eva and her husband are dragged into the process of building a new era. Metaphorically depicting the chaotic era and history, this masterpiece casts Eva, a woman filled w...

Special Programs in Focus

• Turkey
• 2014
• 122min

A family remains in their island village home despite an eviction order. Animals perish en masse amid a mood of ominous doom, yet women reverse their tragic states with songs of resistance and life. The tale of an island seized by...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia,Germany
• 2014
• 101min

A number of people gather at a small town school for a film casting. In a series of interviews disguised as auditions, people aged between 15 to 23 stand before the camera and share their life stories including: a boy waiting for ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia,France,Luxembourg
• 2014
• 91min

Ten housewives are selected for a televised reality program to choose the best mother. All with their own life stories, the contestants undergo all kinds of humiliation to win the cash prize and an apartment. Following the cooking...

• 2012 Venice Film Festival (Venice Days)

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany,Georgia
• 2014
• 58min

Without particular cinematic devices or intervention, this documentary grabbed considerable attention by gazing at an old building to look into the frozen era. Once called “Bakhmaro,” this former hotel building features the styles...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia
• 2014
• 41min

This “culture film” directed by the first woman filmmaker of Georgia presents contrasting landscapes of the famous vacation spot surrounding the mountainous Racha region and the struggling life of its residents. When a power plant...

Special Programs in Focus

• Turkey
• 2014
• 89min

An artist and communist in his 70s, a lawyer who cherishes snails, a tired medical doctor, and a lonely businesswoman are old friends and regulars at the Black & White bar run by Faruk. When they hear that the bar will soon be shu...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia
• 2014
• 80min

Working at a club and restaurant, Nana dreams of saving money and starting her own business. Niko, a policeman, approaches Nana, who is exhausted by the owner’s abuse and the problems with her coworkers. Gradually, the two develop...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia
• 2014
• 73min

Susa works as a messenger boy for his mother’s illegal vodka trade, and everyone he meets during his delivery trips are drinkers and neighborhood bullies. The only way to escape from this monotonous life is to look into his kaleid...