Ia Shugliashvili

My Happy Family

In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents’ home and live alone. Without her family and her husband, a journey into the unknown begins.

In the Name of Blood

In the working-class neighborhoods of Nice, a pillar of the local Georgian community is murdered. His son Tristan, who aspires to become an orthodox priest, finds himself finds himself alone with his grieving mother. Gabriel, his older brother with a troubled past, reappears from a long exile to make amends by redeeming his family honor.

Heatwave

The story centers around the Georgian family while waiting for their terminally ill mother to pass away

When You Are 17

Romantic affection of a 17 year old Kurdish boy takes a dark turn, as he wanders through ghetto of Tbilisi with his drug-dealer friend, discovering the bittersweet taste of life.

Kakhetian Train

The house painter Misha lives with sense of guilt because of the death of the son. Police officers ruthlessly destroy Misha for the fact that allegedly he stores things stolen by his son. The meeting with Niko Pirosmani's drawing of "Train in Kakheti" for Misha becomes an opportunity that he will come back the past and to confess for the made mistakes concerning his son.

Fight for Redemption

A young man searches for his path to God only to find it in sin.

From Life to Life

A Doctor has to make the ultimate choice between his own family and lives of others.

As If You Were Never Here

In the dead of night, a strange woman arrives in a forgotten village in northern Georgia. Marina, an Israeli lawyer who has spent her life in denial about her past and identity, returns to Georgia to bring back to Israel an 11-year-old boy who was abandoned by his mother Nino as a baby. She meets Dato (Nino's brother) who has cared for the boy his entire life. Despite the hostility she arouses in him, he agrees to help her. The journey of Dato and Marina, two strangers, melts the walls of alienation and anger and changes their perspective on the world and themselves.

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Spineless

The film is about Mamia (father) and Martha (mother), who kicked their transgender child Levan (Ella) out of home at an early age. They hadn’t seen their kid for ten years. After ten years their child is murdered in town. Mamia brings their kid’s corpse back to the village where he and Martha live. The return of their dead kid opens old wounds and they start thinking whether the decision of kicking their kid out was right – or should they have accepted him the way he was?