Comets

Tamar Shavgulidze : 2019

Legend has it that water was brought to Earth by comets. Without water, human life is impossible. Love too, is essential for survival. Without it, existence can be unbearable. Many years have passed since they were separated by circumstance, but the memories of balmy summer evenings in the outskirts of Tbilisi have stayed with 55-year-olds Irina and Nana. The two were once inseparable, sharing a bond beyond friendship that did not go unnoticed in their small community. More than three decades later, Irina returns to the summer house of her youth, a place where Nana built a life, marrying and bearing two children, and where she still resides with her daughter, also named Irina. Suddenly, the women are back in the yard where they spent their teenage years and must confront all that was left unsaid. A story about the unconditional love of two women caught up in emotional ties of shared memories. Tamar Shavgulidze's second feature premiered in the Discovery section at Toronto International Film Festival 2019.