ARMED LULLABY

By Yana UGREKHELIDZE

FORTIS FEM FILM - as PROD

Animation - Completed 2018

In order to escape an ethnic massacre, four children are leaving their hometown. Each individual is leaving in different ways: with the last train, the last ship, the last plane… walking over the snow-covered mountains.

Festivals
& Awards

69th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2019
Official Selection
57th Ann Arbour Film Festival, AAFF 2019
Jury Award
31th Filmfest Dresden 2019
Official Selection
46th AIFVF, Athens International Film + Video Festival 2019
Official Selection
NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER 2019, Cannes 2019
41th Moscow International Film Festival 2019
Shorts Competition
FILMKUNSTFEST MV 2019
Shorts Competition
Prädikat "besonders wertvoll" , Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden (FBW) 2019
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Animation
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • No dialog
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 8 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Yana UGREKHELIDZE
    • Writer(s)
    • Yana UGREKHELIDZE
    • Producer(s)
    • Yana UGREKHELIDZE (KHM KUNSTHOCHSCHULE FÜR MEDIEN KÖLN)
    • Synopsis
    • During Abkhazian war in 92-93 ss 250 000 Georgians were forced to leave their homes in Abkhazia to escape the violent ethnical cleansing campaign that was perpetrated by Abkhazians, supported by Russian, Armenian, Chechen, Cossack and Dagestan militants. For their participation in war Abkhazians payed with houses and land of expelled and executed Georgians. From 1992 till today Georgian civilians can not return to their homes in Abkhazia.
      The film shows four fleeing routes that were taken by four children in order to escape the ethnical massacre.