STORMY NIGHTS

dir: Ivan Kavaleridze

1931 / 52' / Soviet Ukraine

Sub: UA ENG GE

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Ivan Kavaleridze's third and final silent film, depicts the construction of the DniproHES dam, a significant event in Soviet cinema. The construction which also appears in Dzyga Vertov's The Eleventh Year Arnold Kordum's Wind from Rapids, and Oleksandr Dovzhenko's Ivan, explores the conflict between old and new, rural and urban, and humanity's triumph over nature.

The screening is introduced by Alyona Penzii - a researcher, film critic, and culture manager from Kyiv's Dovzhenko Center. Her research focuses on the history of Ukrainian non-fiction film.

LAND UNDERWATER

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dir: Maddi Barber

2020 / 50' / Spain

Sub: ქარ ENG

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In 2003, the Itoiz reservoir flooded seven villages and three nature reserves in the Pyrenees. Activists, former inhabitants of the area and the director of the film still dream about the region’s past. A militant and dreamlike film that transports us into the collective mourning of a land engulfed by water.

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Preceded by short

GVELESHAPI, THE WATER DRAGON

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dir: Eka Tsotsoria

2023 35' / Georgia. Sub: ENG

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the screenings are followed with a discussion on the protest movements of Namokhvanhesi and Balda Canyon.

BEHEMOTH

dir: Zhao Liang

2015 / 90' / China, France

Sub: ქარ ENG

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Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, political documentarian Zhao Liang’s visionary new film Behemoth details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and ecological devastation behind an economic miracle that may yet prove illusory.

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Preceded by short

ALL INCLUSIVE
dir: Corina Schwingruber Ilić / 2019 / 10' / Switzerland​

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followed by the discussion on the extraction of natural resources accompanied by the protest movements and social inequality tied to it.

DEAD SLOW AHEAD​

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dir: Mauro Herce

2015 / 74' / Spain, France

Sub: ქარ ENG

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A freighter Fair Lady crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its pace reveals the continuous movement of the machinery devouring its workers: the old sailor’s gestures disappearing under the mechanical and impersonal pulse of the 21st century. Perhaps it is a boat adrift, or maybe just the last example of an endangered species with engines still running, unstoppable.

MEDUZA

dir: Chloé Malcotti

2021 / 72' / Belgium

Sub: ქარ ENG

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In 1913, the Solvay company set up a baking soda factory in Rosignano (IT). For over 100 years, the production processes of this material have deeply marked, transformed, and affected the bodies and spirit of its inhabitants. Throughout this time, they have covered this place with a strange colour, intensely white, sterile, and corrosive.

The film consists of three interwoven stories, written with the inhabitants of the village that guide us along the path of this intriguing colour: a group of teenagers reenact the golden age, the tale of a medium and a fossilised body, and lastly the story of a lover and her memory.