Grzeli nateli dgeebi

Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Groß : 2013
In Bloom

Tbilisi, Georgia, 1992. The Soviet era is over and Georgia must fend for itself. Civil war is raging in the province of Abkhazia. For Natia and Eka, barely fourteen-year-olds, childhood is coming to an end. Eka is growing up without her father, rebelling against her concerned mother and her older sister. And Natia's father, a choleric alcoholic, terrorises the entire family. The two friends cannot find peace outside of the family either – not in school, not on the street, and not in the bread lines. Chaos, insecurity and fear of what the future might bring hold sway in everyday life. An admirer gives Natia a pistol with one single bullet. A little later, she's abducted by another admirer. Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß's debut feature weaves together melancholy and missing love, eruptions of violence and a sense of the idyllic, precocious cold-bloodedness and childlike naïveté. The film won the CICAE Award when it premiered in the Forum section at Berlin International Film Festival 2013.