DRAWING LOTS

LOTTO

By Zaza KHALVASHI, Tamta KHALVASHI

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Drama - Completed 2023

Love and crime, secrets and dreams intertwine in this ensemble tale that wends its seductive way through a tight-knit community in a Georgian town. Nothing is as it seems in the modulating rhythms of fate, the shifting loyalties and the ultimate reality that “neighborhood” sometimes means "family".

Festivals
& Awards

Rotterdam IFFR 2023
Main competition
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • GEORGIA, LITHUANIA
    • Languages
    • GEORGIAN
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Zaza KHALVASHI, Tamta KHALVASHI
    • Writer(s)
    • Zaza KHALVASHI
    • Producer(s)
    • Sulkhan TURMANIDZE (Bafis), Tekla MACHAVARIANI (Bafis), Ieva NORVILIENĖ (TREMORA)
    • Synopsis
    • Drawing Lots is an ensemble tale of subtly interlinked stories set in a close-knit neighbourhood of Georgia’s second city, Batumi. The lives of neighbours such as a talented and troubled aspiring rock star, petty criminals, a concert violinist, angsty and love-struck teenagers, betrayed lovers, fractured families and many others intertwine in various ways, some expected and familiar, some surprising and secret, some contentious, some passionate and forbidden, but always coloured by the underlying tribal magnetism of community.

      In this unassuming urban enclave, everybody is looking for something – money, treasure, friendship, success and, especially, love. But each quest is elusive in its own way, as these engaging characters learn one by one that desire is as changeable as a young man’s heart.

      The title refers to the central image of the neighbours playing a bingo-style game, their cacophonous and good-natured bickering exemplifying the community’s dynamics, and the game itself exemplifying the randomness of life, the fickleness of fate.