THE MOON IS A FATHER OF MINE

THE MOON IS A FATHER OF MINE

Directed by

Giorgi Ovashvili

Georgia, Luxembourg, Turkey, Czech Republic, Germany, Bulgaria 2025 100 MIN

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THE MOON IS A FATHER OF MINE

Synopsis

Georgia, autumn 1991. Twelve-year-old Toma lives with his grandmother in Tbilisi and has grown up without knowing his father. Shortly after Georgia declares independence, Nemo returns following years in prison and takes his son to their ancestral mountain village. Surrounded by people who have not forgotten Nemo’s troubled past, father and son set out into the wilderness, where Nemo begins teaching Toma how to hunt and survive. Their difficult journey gradually becomes the first real opportunity for them to understand one another. Against the harsh beauty of the Georgian mountains, Toma confronts fear, loyalty, responsibility, and the complicated legacy of his father as childhood begins to give way to adulthood.

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THE MOON IS A FATHER OF MINE
THE MOON IS A FATHER OF MINE
THE MOON IS A FATHER OF MINE
THE MOON IS A FATHER OF MINE
THE MOON IS A FATHER OF MINE

Giorgi Ovashvili

Giorgi Ovashvili is a Georgian director, screenwriter, and producer, born in 1963. He graduated from the film department of the Georgian State University of Cinema and Theatre and later studied filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. His first feature, The Other Bank (2009), premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and received more than 50 international awards. His second feature, Corn Island (2014), won the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His other features include Khibula (2017) and Beautiful Helen (2022). Ovashvili’s cinema often explores human relationships against landscapes marked by history, conflict, and isolation.

Credits

Director
Giorgi Ovashvili
Screenplay
Giorgi Ovashvili, Roelof Jan Minneboo
Cinematography
Christos Karamanis
Editing
Sun-Min Kim
Music
Josef Bardanashvili, Jakub Kudláč
Sound Design
Ivo Heger, Johannes Doberenz
Cast
Givi Chuguashvili, Badri Tabatadze, Giorgi Gigauri, Kira Andronikashvili, Otar Mikeladze, Mariam Chagunava
Producers
Giorgi Ovashvili, Fabrizio Maltese, Eike Goreczka, Filip Todorov, Karla Stojáková, Mesut Ulutaş (Wagonnet Films, Joli Rideau Media, 42film, Waterfront, Axman Production, Seven Peas Film)

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