GURIA

GURIA

Directed by

Levan Koguashvili

Georgia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Bulgaria 2026 118 MIN

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Synopsis

In a Georgian village still marked by the economic collapse that followed the end of the Soviet Union, a widowed hazelnut farmer tries to preserve both his dignity and his livelihood. Power cuts, poverty, and an unstable market have become part of everyday life, but he stubbornly refuses to accept an unfair price for his harvest. At the same time, he begins to hope that life may offer him another chance at companionship and love. Moving between hardship, humour, and quiet tenderness, Guria follows a man determined to negotiate two things on his own terms: a fair price for the fruits of his labour and the possibility of beginning again.

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Levan Koguashvili

Levan Koguashvili is a Georgian director, screenwriter, and producer, born in Tbilisi in 1973. He studied filmmaking in Tbilisi and at VGIK in Moscow before graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His short film The Debt screened at Sundance, while his feature debut Street Days established him internationally. He followed it with Blind Dates and Brighton 4th, the latter winning Best International Narrative Feature, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor at the Tribeca Film Festival. Koguashvili’s cinema combines understated humour and social observation, often focusing on ordinary people negotiating family obligations, economic hardship, loneliness, and the contradictions of contemporary Georgian life.

Credits

Director
Levan Koguashvili
Screenplay
Boris Frumin with Levan Koguashvili, Georgi Kekelidze
Cinematography
Gigi Samsonadze, Giorgi Shvelidze
Editing
Pia Dumont
Music
Giorgi Gordeladze
Sound Design
Patrick Becker, Vano Gvaradze, Oswald Schwander
Cast
Kakhaber Tcholadze, Natia Nikolaishvili, Vamekh Jangidze, Davit Natsvaladze, Anamaria Kamladze, Sergi Kviloria
Producers
Olena Yershova, Levan Koguashvili, Boris Frumin, Pascal Traechslin, Donato Rotunno, Stefan Kitanov, Kanat Doğramacı, Elsa Fernanda Pirir (Kino Iberica, Cineworx Filmproduktion, Tarantula Luxembourg, Art Fest, TatoFilm, Maya Film, Staer, Red Sea Fund)

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