Georgian Film Series: "The Other Bank (Gagma Napiri)" by George Ovashvili

Thursday 28.04.2016 8:00 PM | Saal

Admission: 5€

Organizer: Werkstatt der Kulturen/ Dr. Lily Fürstenow-Khositashvili

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Georgian Film Series
 

The Other Bank (Gagma Napiri) by George Ovashvili

Drama, Georgia/Kazakhstan 2009, 90 min. Original with English Subtitles

An impressive and moving drama about the fate of refugees in Georgia. Life creates many obstacles for 12 year old boy Tedo. He belongs to the generation that was subject to mass displacement due to the war conflict in Abkhazia, one of the most beautiful regions of Georgia. The war took away everything that Tedo had, even hope. The film tells the extraordinary inner drama of the little boy, his thoughts, feelings, passions, sorrows, efforts and courage that enables him to face difficulties.

Director: George Ovashvili

George Ovashvili was born in Mtskheta, Georgia. He studied at the Polytechnical Institute (1981—1986).
Ovashvili is a graduate of the Georgian State Institute of Cinema and Theatre (1996), and the New York Film Academy at Universal Studios in Holywood (2006). A stage actor at the State Theatre, he also directed plays for children and ran an advertising agency.
The writer of a television program entitled Georgian Bulletin for a broadcaster in New York. His short film, Zgvis Donidan — Eye Level (2005) received numerous awards. He has directed a number of poignantly elegant shorts, most notably — Eye Level (New York Film Academy Scholarship Award at Berlinale 2005, Special Prize of International Jury at Odense FF) and The Trolley (Special Prize of international jury at Kiev "Molodist" FF).
The Other Bank is his big-screen directorial debut and has received several awards.

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TRAILER:
 

Georgian-language Interview with George Ovashvil:
 

 Foyer:

I Tamar Magradze - Au-Pair, 2014, 6 min.

As the economic situation in Georgia is far behind Western European standards, majorities of the population are unable to engage and realize themselves in social and civic activities. In a situation like this, the young generation for whom their prospects do not exceed ironic promises of political parties during elections, migration seems the only solution.

The film shows one of these well adapted strategies, mostly used by young women under-25, who want to participate in a one-year cultural exchange program, in order to avoid financial requirements and exhausting bureaucracy associated with migration to Europe for study or other reasons. Once accepted on this cultural program, they appear in various European cities and that’s the point when they realize their expectations have not met reality.

II “We shall survive in the memory of others,” Vilém Flusser Interviews

“We shall survive in the memory of others,” Vilém Flusser Interviews, made available by Miklós Peternák for the Center for Communication and Culture, Budapest, as well as Marcel Marburger and Siegfried Zielinski for the Vilém Flusser Archiv

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