( Tskhovreba Transiti )
Valérie Léon, Tamuna Jalaghania
2011 - 33 min - HD - Couleur - Géorgie, France
Since 1993 and their expulsion from Abkhazia, one hundred and fifty families of refugees invested a disused building, alike a shipwreck in the surroundings of a lake.
What is this weird abandon? Which horizons are they heading to?
In the periphery of the capital city (Tbilisi), these men and women live there, forgotten and as strangers in this isolated land. They form a community of uprooted, who practice solidarity as their sole mean of survival.
When one follows them in their daily lives, they reveal and tell the meaning of their existences as exiles. They make us rub shoulders with their ghosts, memories, hopes and their new becoming.
Author-Director : Valérie Léon, Tamuna Jalaghania
Photography : Giorgi Beridze
Sound : Nikoloz Tarielashvili
Editing : Nikoloz Tarielashvili
Original Music : Esteban Anavitarte, Dato Khositashvili
Delegate Producer : Okup'Art
Contribution : Conseil de l'Europe, Norwegian Refugee Council, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Scam - Brouillon d'un rêve
Distinctions
2011 - Short Film Corner, Cannes (France) : Sélection2011 - LIDF (London International Documentary Festival), Londres (Grande-Bretagne) :
2010 - Scam, Paris (France) : Brouillon d'un rêve