Nutsa Gogoberidze was Georgia’s first woman director, before being separated from her family for ten years as a gulag prisoner, and entirely cut off from her censured oeuvre for the rest of her life. Together with her daughter Salomé Alexi, Lana Gogoberidze sets out to bring together the pieces of Nutsa’s life. They find her lost works Buba (1930) and Uzhmuri (1934). Lana on the set of her previous films, surrounded by her film crew family: filmmaking as a collective practice of care and tenderness. Her film is at once autobiography, declaration of love and grieving process – Lana’s legacy, which also contains that of her mother, who inspired her to create strong, free women characters who defy dark times. The Gogoberidze dynasty countered the abyss with poetry, dance and cinema – lives divided, but shared. (Gaby Babić, Berlinale Forum)
Lana Gogoberidze, * 1928 in Tbilisi, studied directing at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. She is the co-founder and first president of the Kino Women International association, later head of the directing department at the Rustaveli Theater School and the Kartuli Pilmi studio (now Georgian Film). Gogoberidze celebrated her international breakthrough with her autobiographically influenced film Ramdenime interviu pirad sakitkhebze (Some Interviews on Personal Matters, USSR/Georgia 1978), which won the Grand Prix in San Remo in 1979. In 1984 she was part of the international jury of the 34th Berlin Film Festival. Her film Valsi Pechoraze received the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the International Forum of Young Cinema in 1993. From 1992 to 1995, she was a member of the Georgian parliament. In 2019, Arsenal supported the translation of her autobiography into German.
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Georgia, France 2023. length: 89 min. original language: Georgian. Language version: OV with English or German subtitles. Director, screenplay, Off voice: Lana Gogoberidze. Co-director, producer: Salome Alexi. Production company: 3003 Film Production (Tbilisi, Georgia). Cinematography: Jean-Louis Padis. Editing: Lana Gogoberidze, Helene Murjikneli. Music: Reso Kiknadze. Sound design: Irakli Ivanishvili. Production design: Simon Machabeli. Co-producer: Jean-Louis Padis. Co-production: Manuel Cam.
