CROSSING
SE/FR/DK/GE/TR | 2024 | 90 minutes | Fearture fiction
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
GEO/DE | 2023 | 62 minutes | Documentary
World Premiere at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on July 4th, 2023.
What are the costs of the half-truths that politicians tell? In 2012, in the race for reelection, Georgia’s governing party was promising subsidized dental care to the country’s least well off. Across the land, state medical practitioners began removing rotten teeth with the promise of replacements in the months that followed — then the party lost.
Through interviews with those worst affected by that campaign, Smiling Georgia tells a story about the whims of political power and the defiance of those who usually hold the least of it .
Director: Luka Beradze
Production: 1991 Productions
Co-production: Color of May, Enkeny Films
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
Watch on iTunes, Google Play, Microsoft Store, Vimeo On Demand, Kino VOD Club, Flimmit, Sooner, and dafilms.
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
Co-executive Production: 1991 Productions
International Sales: Wide Management
