BITTER SUGAR

MTSARE SHAQARI

By Ana BARJADZE

RADIUM FILMS - as PROD

Documentary - Post-Production 2026


Festivals
& Awards

IDFA Producers Connection 2022
AJB DOCS 2023
AJB Balcan Prize
Cannes 2024
Cannes Docs
    • Year of production
    • 2026
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • GEORGIA
    • 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.