Section: Women's roles in socialism and beyond

GRZELI NATELI DGEEBI

IN BLOOM

Nana Ekvtimishvili / Simon Groß
GE/DE/FR , 2013, 103 Min

Georgia in 1992: The country is in a state of upheaval and so are its political and social norms. Eka and Natia are forced to grow up during a time when the ground continuously shakes under their feet. A painfully beautiful portrait of a generation of women fighting for their place in society shortly after the collapse of socialism.

Es sind die wilden 90er. Die männliche Bevölkerung bewegt sich zunehmend zwischen Krieg, Kriminalität und Alkoholismus und es ist ungewiss, ob sie heute lebendig nach Hause zurückkehrt Für Frauen gibt es nicht viel Platz in dieser patriarchalen und von Gewalt geleiteten Welt, in der die 14-jährigen Eka und Natia aufwachsen. Trotz der düsteren Szenerie schafft es der Film, die Leichtigkeit und Lebendigkeit, die den jungen Frauen eigen ist, beizubehalten. Auch in solchen kläglichen Umständen es wird geliebt und gelacht. Werden Eka und Natia trotz allem doch noch ihr Glück im Leben finden? Die Co-Regisseurin und Drehbuchautorin Nana Ekwtimischwili wuchs selbst in den 1990er-Jahren in Georgien auf und bringt eigene Erfahrungen in ihr Spielfilmdebüt mit ein.

Weltspiegel (large hall): original version with English subtitles + German simultaneous translation

 

Nana Ekvtimishvili / Simon Groß

Nana Ekvtimishvili / Simon Groß - Nana Ekvtimishvili, born in 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia, started her career as a writer in her teens. She wrote short stories for a Georgian magazine. After studying philosophy in Tbilisi, she studied "Drama and Screenwriting" at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg. There she met Simon Groß, producer and co-director of DIE LANGEN HELLEN TAGE. After writing prose and various screenplays, she directed the short film Waiting for Mum in 2011. In 2012, she co-founded her own production company POLARE FILM in Georgia with Simon Groß, directed and produced DIE LANGEN HELLEN TAGE in Georgia. The film premiered in 2013 at the Forum of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. Nana and Simon live in Tbilisi, where they successfully run a chain of ice cream parlors. Nana Ekvtimishvili has just finished a new novel.

Simon Groß, born in Berlin in 1976, studied film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich. After directing several short films, he shot his first feature-length film Fata Morgana in Morocco in 2006, for which he received the Förderpreis Deutscher Film for Best Director at the Munich Film Festival. He founded his own production companies: INDIZ FILM together with Marc Wächter in Germany and POLARE FILM together with Nana Ekvtimishvili in Georgia. In 2012 he directed and produced the feature film DIE LANGEN HELLEN TAGE in Georgia.

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