BITTER SUGAR

MTSARE SHAQARI

By Ana BARJADZE

CANNES DOCS - MARCHÉ DU FILM - as PROMO

Documentary - Post-Production 2025

Nika, Gika, and Levan - three brothers from a small, dying Georgian town - navigate life, only relying on each other, while their absent mother provides for the family from abroad.

Festivals
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Cannes 2024
Cannes Docs
    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • GEORGIA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 70 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ana BARJADZE
    • Producer(s)
    • Irina GELASHVILI (Radium Films)
    • Synopsis
    • In a small Georgian town, three brothers gather around a video call to their mother. Their faces light up with joy as they see and hear her. She is in Italy, looking after an old lady. Their father is also a labor immigrant in Germany. For the boys, the only connection to the parents is through these distant phone calls and online parenthood.
      The boys mature as they come to terms with their parents' absence for the sake of their own well-being. They are stuck in an endless "Waiting for Godot" cycle as they wait for the phone to ring.