After winning the French Touch Prize of the Jury on Wednesday, IMAGO by Déni Oumar Pitsaev was presented with Cannes' prestigious Golden Eye – The Documentary Prize tonight! We are so proud of the film team and grateful for the privilege to work on this incredible film. Congratulations! 

IMAGO

By Déni Oumar Pitsaev – CRITICS' WEEK

World Premiere
Rediance Films © 2025

dscape, deserves recognition. Pitsaev films the Pankissi community… with palpable compassion and curiosity.”

Vikram Murthi, IndieWire

"This peek into a region and a rarely seen piece of recent history will surely find admirers on the festival circuit."

Boyd van Hoeij, Screen International

"A strong festival entry."

Veronica Orciari, Cineuropa

"Whatever its echoes of war, Imago is a surprisingly lyrical documentary that even has traces of Chekhov."

Geoffrey Macnab, Business Doc Europe

IMAGO

France, Belgium

2025 - 109m - Color

Chechen, Georgian, Russian with French and English Subtitles

A Triptyque Films and Need Productions co-production

Producers

Alexandra Mélot, Anne-Laure Guégan, Géraldine Sprimont

When Déni inherits a small patch of land in the wild, beautiful valley of Pankissi, he sees a chance to finally build the house in the trees that he's dreamed of since he was a boy. But nothing in the rugged Caucasus is ever simple. Returning to a village just across the Chechen border where he was born - a place he barely knows - Déni stirs up old feuds, buried family dramas, and above all, the question everyone keeps asking: when, and with whom, is he finally going to get married?

US & INTERNATIONAL PRESS

Anne Takahashi, press@takapr.com

FRENCH PRESS

Karine Durance, durancekarine@yahoo.fr