A novella about the director’s mother, who comes to Abkhazia to erect a monument on the nearly abandoned grave of her Georgian father. Her half-brother and sister are forbidden to enter the country, as they left it as refugees after the 1992-1993 war between Georgia and Abkhazia, when 250,000 Georgians (over 60% of the population) had to leave their motherland. Guzella is visiting Georgia to meet her brother and sister, after knowing nothing about their fate for 18 years and finding them by chance on a social network. After that she comes to Abkhazia, making it possible to unite the family on the 75th anniversary of their father’s birth.
Production and Sales
Ostrov Studio, Sergey Miroshnichenko, Brusov per. 2/14 b. 8, office 318, Moscow, Russia, 125009, +74959830335,
[email protected], www.ostrovstudio.com
Awards
Prize of Higher Courses of the directors and scriptwriter at XXI International Film Festival “Kinoshock-2012”, Anapa, Russia
Director
Georgy Molodtsov
Georgy Molodtsov was born in 1986. He graduated from VGIK (the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography) in documentary filmmaking in 2008. Since 2006 he has been creative director of the Laboratory For Social Advertising agency, where he has received more than 40 awards for social advertising campaigns. Since 2008 he has been a programmer and coordinator of the Free Thought documentary program as part of the Moscow International Film Festival. Since 2010 he has been a buyer and editor on the Watch and Discuss talk show for Kultura TV.
Selected Filmography
I AMsterdam (2005), The Traces (2006), Other Colors (2007), President of CC (2008)