Glory To The Queen

AT/GEO/SRB | 2020 | 82 minutes | Documentary

During the Cold War, four legendary female chess players from Georgia revolutionized women’s chess across the globe, and became Soviet icons of female emancipation. Glory to the Queen reveals their interwoven biographies and is both a rare look into the present lives of chess stars Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Maia Chiburdanidze and Nana Ioseliani, as well as a chronicle of their lasting legacy. 

Starring:  Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Nana Ioseliani, Maia Chiburdanidze 

Directors: Tatia Skhirtladze, Anna Khazaradze 

Production: 1991 Productions, berg Hamer film, AMOUR FOU Vienaa, Playground Produkcija

International Sales: Filmdelights

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Negative Numbers

GEO/FR/IT | 2019 | 110 minutes | Drama

Based on true events, the story unfolds at a juvenile detention centre in Tbilisi, where rugby is introduced as a reintegration program to help young criminals change their futures.

Starring:  Sandro Kalandadze, Viktor Barbakadze, Tedo Bekhauri, Lexo Gugava, Sandro Abashidze

Director: Uta Beria

Production:  Magnet Films, Alief,  39 Films, Wide Management, 1991 Productions

International Sales:  Wide Management

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PASSAGE

Feature film in production

Lia, a world-weary and financially struggling former schoolteacher has promised to fulfill her recently deceased sister’s last wish – to find her long lost daughter Tekla. Together with Tekla’s former neighbor and friend, an out-of-luck young man called Achi, she embarks on an emotive journey forming an unlikely and involuntary bond as they navigate the backstreets of Istanbul together in search of Tekla.

Director: Levan Akin

Production: French Quarter Film, Easy Rider Films, Bir Film, 1991 Productions, Adomeit Film

Countries: Sweden, France, Turkey, Georgia, Denmark

Smiling Georgia

Feature Documentary in post-production

Elderly population of village No Name is left teethless as a result of a failed pre-election campaign of 2012 called “Smiling Georgia”. New promises and guarantees are made to the villagers before they cast their votes in 2021 – will their lives change for the better this time?

The film is a thought-provoking tragicomical parable about how inexhaustible is human hope.

Director: Luka Beradze

Production: 1991 Productions, Enkeny Films, Color of May

Countries: Georgia, Germany

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9-Month Contract

Feature Documentary in production

When raising a kid as a homeless single mother becomes too hard, Jana decides to become a surrogate mother in order to provide for her own teenage daughter.

Director: Ketevan Vashagashvili

Production: 1991 Productions

Country: Georgia

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Tear Gas

Feature Film in development

Elene and Andro discover each other among thousands of protesters; with the desire to meet one another they stay at a civil demonstration that grows violent and gets dispersed by rubber bullets and tear gas.

Director: Uta Beria

Production: 1991 Productions, Magnet Films, Tripode Productions

Country: Georgia, France

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Berliner

Feature Documentary in development

A middle-aged Georgian woman working in Berlin as a German language interpreter guides us through the lives of criminals and refugees from Post-Soviet countries for whom she translates.

Director: Anna Khazaradze

Production: 1991 Productions

Country: Georgia, Germany

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