Watch Trailer For IDFA Documentary ‘The Kartli Kingdom’
EXCLUSIVE: A dozen movies are set to premiere within the marquee class of Worldwide Competitors at Worldwide Documentary Competition Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s largest nonfiction pageant that opens at the moment within the Dutch capital.
Among the many movies vying for the worldwide prize is The Kartli Kingdom, directed by Tamar Kalandadze and Julien Pebrel, an exploration of a former sanatorium within the Georgian capital of Tbilisi that shelters refugees from the brutal Nineteen Nineties warfare in Abkhazia. It was purported to function a short lived refuge solely, however 30 years later, it’s nonetheless in operation.
The Kartli Kingdom holds its world premiere on Sunday (on the Tuschinski 2 theater). Now we have your first take a look at the documentary within the teaser-trailer above.
‘The Kartli Kingdom’
Sakdoc Movie/Habilis Productions
The collapsing Kartli sanitorium, named for Georgia’s medieval kingdom, turned a recreated “nation” for these caught up within the warfare, as a launch notes: “A farm, backyard, terraces, and rooms the place previous VHS tapes revive reminiscences of Abkhazia, their misplaced paradise. By Tamuna, Irma, and others, the movie reveals exile’s trauma and shared resilience. Even when time appears frozen in Kartli’s partitions, nothing stays the identical.”
“Our movie is actually four-handed — born from lengthy conversations and a shared perspective, but additionally formed by our particular person languages, histories, and cultures,” administrators Kalandadze and Pebrel noticed. “What emerged is an intimate portrait of a neighborhood advised via its shelter, the place previous, current, and imagined futures mix into one emotional panorama. Reminiscences resurface like an underground stream: private tales, collective tales of the 1992 warfare, and household VHS archives that reveal an idealized previous. Every day life — its tenderness, its tensions, its humor — is what guided our gaze, even because the neighborhood navigated displacement and the grief following Zouri’s tragic suicide. By our presence as outsiders, individuals entrusted us with tales they may not have shared in any other case, permitting the movie to develop into an area the place the invisible might lastly be spoken.”
‘The Kartli Kingdom’
Sakdoc Movie/Habilis Productions
Along with its world premiere on Sunday, The Kartli Kingdom will display at IDFA on Monday (Nov. 17), Tuesday (Nov. 18), Thursday (Nov. 20), Friday (Nov. 21), and Saturday (Nov. 22).
The documentary is a manufacturing of Georgia’s Sakdoc Movie and France’s Habilis Productions. The Kartli Kingdom is produced by Ketevan Kipiani for Sakdoc Movie and Jean-Baptiste Bonnet for Habilis Productions. Sq. Eyes is answerable for world gross sales.
Watch the teaser-trailer for The Kartli Kingdom above.
