SYNOPSIS
When his father, David (55) follows a spiritual calling and leaves for a monastery to become a monk, Sandro (19), an introverted teenager, falls into a spiral of adolescent uncertainties. With a mother working abroad illegally and a grandma too old to substitute a parent, he is practically left alone. He has no choice but to support his father, as devoting one’s life to God is one of the most noble acts in the deeply religious, post-Soviet Georgia. To fulfill a new obligation as a son of a future monk, he must turn to religion himself, and without realizing it, becomes oppressed by the invisible spiritual surveillance of his father and God that shapes his behavior.
20 Steps Productions (GA)
FILMO2 (FR)
Ombre Rosse Film Production (IT)
Tangaj Production (RO)
n /a
Data Chachua
Keti Sharvashidze
Malkhaz Abuladze
Maiko Gelovani
Salome Gelenidze
Writer | George Sikharulidze
Director | George Sikharulidze
Producer | Vladimir Katcharava, Luca Cabriolu, Anamaria Antoci, Olivier Chantriaux
Director of Photography | Oleg Mutu
Editor | Georgia Villa
Sound | Alexandru Dumitru
Production Designer | Ketevan Nadibaidze
Costume Designer | Ketevan Kalandadze
Georgian National Film Center
Aide aux cinémas du monde
Île-de-France
MIC Co-production Fund
RAI Cinema
Romanian Film Centre
Romanian National Television
Chainsaw Europe
Montpellier
Arras| 2nd Prize
Odessa | Best Pitch
Vilnius meeting point
Sofia meetings
Cinefondation Residence
Torino film lab
Torino script lab
Transilvania Pitch Stop
Running Time 105 min
Aspect Ratio 2.39:1
Sound 5.1
Color
Screening Format DCP 2K