CORN ISLAND
2015 Films
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1h 40m
The Enguri River forms the border between Georgia and the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia. Tensions between the two nations have not abated since the war of 1992-93. Every spring the river brings fertile soil from the Caucasus down to the plains of Abkhazia and northwestern Georgia, creating tiny island: small clusters of no man's land.
The islands are havens for wildlife but occasionally also for man. Our story begins when an old Abkhaz farmer sets foot on one of the islands. The old man builds a hut for him and his teenage granddaughter, he ploughs the earth and together they sow corn. As his granddaughter blossoms into womanhood and the corn ripens, the old man is confronted by the inescapable cycle of life.
Direction: George Ovashvili
Script: George Ovashvili, Roelof-Jan Minneboo, Nugzar Shataidze
Production: Nino Devdariani, Eike Goreczka, Guillaume de Seille, Karla Stojakova, Sain Gabdullin, Gabor Ferenczy, Eike Goreczka
Cinematography: Elemér Ragályi
Editing: Kim Sun-Min
Production Design: Ariunsaichan Dawaachu
Costume Design: Ivana Axmanova
Sound: Frédéric Théry
Original Score: Josef Bardanashvili
Cast: Ilyas Salman, Tamer Levent, Irakli Samushia, Mariam Buturishvili
Original Title: SIMINDIS KUNDZULI
Original Language: Georgian
Film Production Countries: Georgia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Czechia, France, Hungary
Biography of the Director/s
George Ovashvili, Director & Screenwriter – from Tbilisi, Georgia. He graduated in 1996 from the film department of the Georgian State Institute of Cinema. Thanks to a prize at the Berlinale for his short film EYE LEVEL (2005) he deepened his education with a successful participation in the course of filmmaking at the New York Film Academy organised by the Universal Studios in Hollywood. His feature film debut was THE OTHER BANK (2009), a war refugee drama which screened at 80 international film festivals in more than 50 countries and won about 50 international awards.
With KHIBULA, his third feature film in development, George participated in the Cinéfondation section at the Cannes IFF, where it won the ARTE Award.
Awards Won
Korlovy Vary IFF: Crystal Globe
Palm Springs FF: Bridging the Borders Award
Cottbus FF: Audience Award
Oscar-shortlisted for Best Foreign-Language Film 2015
World Sales:
Arizona Distribution
5 Boulevard Barbès
Paris, 75018, France
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +33 9 54 52 55 72
Press:
42film GmbH
Eike Goreczka
Geiststr. 49
Halle, 06108, Germany
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +49 345 478 18 48
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