In war-torn Abkhazia, a grandfather and his granddaughter live on a small corn plantation on a river island. They face various challenges and adapt to their environment amid the ongoing conflict.
During the Georgian Civil War in the 1990s, a farmer finds himself caught in the middle of the conflict. When a wounded soldier from opposite sides seeks refuge in his house, they must put aside their differences and form an unlikely bond.
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.
In war-torn Abkhazia, a boy is chased by the police after being thrown off a moving train. He embarks on a journey to escape them, crossing borders, hopping trains and riding buses. Along the way, he encounters abandoned buildings, dances with joy, and experiences the poverty of his surroundings. This film explores the hardships of childhood in a war-ravaged region.
Let's part - while we're good, and no one betrayed me...
A research center in Sukhumi, the capital of today’s Abkhazia. Legend has it that it was built at the end of the 1920s to create a hybrid between man and monkey. The hypothetical creature never saw the light of day, but people and primates, like sad relics of the past, live together in the derelict wings of the medical institute to this very day. [KVIFF]
"At the Edge of the World" was filmed in 1991, the year of independence, and 1992, the year of war. One year between life as it was then and life as it is now, between rejoicing and destruction. The civil war in Georgia destroyed the utopia of freedom and left behind a battlefield, both in the country itself and in the minds of the Georgians.
On The Way Home is a documentary feature that follows two Georgian families, displaced by war, squatting in abandoned former Soviet sanatoriums as they await government housing.
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