GEORGIA, 2016 // DRAMA // 108min // COMPLETED // MARKET DEBUT

WORLD PREMIERE // GÖTEBORG INT FILM FEST 2016 // THE INGMAR BERGMAN INTERNATIONAL DEBUT AWARD

With: Ekaterine Demetradze, Lasha Murjikneli, Lili Okroshidze, Lamzira Chkheidze, Keso Maisuradze, Konstantine Djandjagava, Luka Chachibaia.

The single mom Anna is forced to take three then four jobs to support herself and her autistic son who lives in a children’s home, and when the whole thing becomes too much to bear she decides to leave Georgia and travel to the US. But it’s easier said than done getting tickets and the fake visa she needs. The contact seems to have something to hide, and when the relationship with him falls apart, Anna panics and kidnaps his daughter. In the middle of everything Anna enters a relationship with a young man in the area where she lives.

The acting is magnificent in Nino Basilia’s first feature film, and with a moving, realistic style the film skillfully captures feelings of hope, guilt and grinding confinement.

Jonas Holmberg / Göteborg Int Film Fest

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CANADA, 2015 // DRAMA // 92min // COMPLETED

Screening on Saturday, February 13th at CineStar 4 at 13:00.

With: Cynthia Ashperger, Chris Jacot, Filip Geljo, Jasmin Geljo, Masa Lizdek, Goran Slavković, Inka Malović, Željko Kecojević, Ma-Anne Dionisio.

Jasmin, a once successful actor in pre-war Bosnia, now living in Toronto with his second wife and 10 year-old son is struggling to reinvigorate his acting career. He jugles a construction job and busy audition schedule, while secretly plotting to return to his native country. But when he’s cast in a role that triggers memories of the Bosnian war, and outside pressures begin to mount, Jasmin in forced to confront his own mortality.
 

"Director Igor Drljaca's portrait of Bosnian immigrant Jasmin Geljo's struggling acting career is sad, funny and deeply authentic...a poignant character study about the immigrant experience."

Eric Kohn / Indiewire

                                                                             
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USA, 2015 // DRAMA // 72min // COMPLETED 

Written by Oscar Nominated Nicholas Kazan
 

With: James Callis (Battlestar Galactica, Bridget Jones's Diary), Maya Kazan (The Knick, Boardwalk Empire), Frank Medrano (The Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, Sleepers)

It is a story of seduction, retribution, and innocence lost. When a young woman is raped, will she sacrifice her humanity and her innocence to enact revenge on her attacker? "Blood Moon" asks the question: when a man’s casual approach to sex turns ugly, how far will a woman go to avenge herself?
 

“Kenneth Kokin’s brilliant directorial debut ‘Blood Moon’ is an engaging and gripping tragedy that’s worthy of being seen. Kokin also produced and directed second unit on several award-winning films that include the ‘The Usual Suspects’, ‘Captain Abu Raed’,’The Way of the Gun’ and ‘Mortdecai’.

Haunting, yet stylistically beautiful, the story follows a young woman who is raped and how she executes retribution on her attacker. It explores the transition from a perky, pretty teen-ager to someone who is forever warped from abuse and degradation.’
Erin Grover | SydneysBuzz // Read Interview
 

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