PANOPTICON
Original Title | PANOPTICON
Director | George Sikharulidze
Georgia, France, Italy, Romania, 105 min (estimated)
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 | tbd
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 (estimated)
Aspect Ratio n/a
Sound 5.1
Color
Screening Format DCP 2K