Thursday, 15th February 2018 – 8PM

SCARY MOTHER (SASHISHI DEDA)

D: Ana Urushadze, C: Nata Murvanidze, Dimitri Tatishvili, Ramaz Ioseliani, Avtandil Makharadze, DOP: Mindia Esadze, GE/EE 2017, 107 min., Georgian OwEs – GP

Georgian director Ana Urushadze’s gripping psychological thriller depicts the life of a writer whose newly completed novel features a heroine who takes inordinate pleasure in explicating how much she hates her family. The writer’s real-life family is not amused.

After the screening

Debate: TRUST AND ART

The machinery of film manufacturing and distribution inscribes itself within a political order. How does machinery and system regulate and readjust each other and can one exist without the other?

Guests: Stefanie Sargnagel (author “Statusmeldungen”, “Fitness”), Kleber Mendonça Filho (filmmaker “Aquarius”, “Neighboring Sounds”) // in the presence of director Ana Urushadze

Re-Run: Sunday, 25th February 2018 – 10am