BLIND DATES
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1h 38m
Sandro, a single high school teacher in his forties, still lives with his parents. Together with his childhood friend Iva they spend their leisure time dating women online. While these rendez-vous usually end up without any results, everything changes when Sandro meets the married Manana who quickly conquers his heart.
Everything goes well until her husband gets out of jail...
Direction: Levan Koguashvili
Script: Levan Koguashvili, Boris Frumin
Production: Suliko Tsulukidze, Levan Koguashvili, Olena Yershova
Cinematography: Tato Kotetishvili
Editing: Nodar Nozadze
Production Design: Kote Japharidze
Costume Design: Tinatin Kvinikadze
Sound: Paata Godziashvili
Cast: Andro Sakvarelidze, Ia Sukhitashvili, Archil Kikodze
Original Title: SHEMTKHVEVITI PAEMNEBI
Original Language: Georgian
Subtitles: English
Film Production Country: Georgia
Biography of the Director/s
Born in Tbilisi in 1973, Levan Koguashvili studied Film Production at the Georgian State University of Theatre and Cinema in Tbilisi, but one year after he began his studies a war broke out in Georgia and he started to work as a journalist for the first independent Georgian television station. Between 1995 and 1999, Levan
studied Film Directing at the Russian State Institute of Film (VGIK) in Moscow, where his mentor was Marlen Khutsiev. In 2007, he graduated from the Tisch School of the Art’s Graduate Film Program (New York University). Levan’s short film The Debt (2005) won a number of awards at international film festivals, and was in
the official selection of the 2006 Sundance lm festival. His documentaries – Father and Son (2003) and The Women from Georgia (2008) – have also taken part in many film festivals, and have also been awarded prizes. His first feature film Street Days was an international success. The film premiered in the Tiger Award Competition of The Rotterdam Film Festival in 2010 and by many critics was regarded as the beginning of a new wave of the modern Georgian cinema.
According to Jay Weissberg from Variety magazine “Georgian cinema has a new star in director Levan Koguashvili, whose superb neorealist drama, "Street Days," is just the calling card the beleaguered country needs. Lensed with impressive assurance and boasting powerful perfs from a combo of established pros and non-pros, "Street Days" looks poised to lead a Georgian renaissance spearheaded by fests and advancing into the arthouse circuit”.
In 2013 Levan shot his second feature film “Blind Dates”.
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