HOUSE OF OTHERS

SKHVISI SAKHLI

By Russudan GLURJIDZE

KARLOVY VARY INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Drama - Completed 2016

Two families have physically survived a brief but devastating war in Abkhazia. Being on the winning side they are granted the hastily vacated houses of the defeated but seem incapable of building a new life in peace: war continues in everyday life because the battles still rage within them…

Festivals
& Awards

Karlovy Vary 2016
East of West Award
Tbilisi IFF 2016
Grand Prix Golden Prometheus
San Sebastian 2016
Panorama
Int'l Antalya Golden Orange 2016
Jury special prize
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • GEORGIA, RUSSIA, SPAIN, CROATIA
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 103 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Russudan GLURJIDZE
    • Writer(s)
    • David CHUBINISHVILI, Russudan GLURJIDZE
    • Producer(s)
    • Zurab MAGALASHVILI (CINETECH), Nadezhda GORSKOVA (LIGA PRODUCTION), Katerina GECHMEN-VALDEK (LIGA PRODUCTION), Gorka Gomez ANDREU (KINOSKOPIK FILM PRODUKTION)
    • Synopsis
    • A young family move into a large house in the village. Mountains, quiet and a big lemon orchard beyond the window. It seems everything necessary for a happy life, is combined in one place. But this is Abkhazia in the early 90's, shortly after a terrible, bitter and bloody war that has made enemies of Georgians and Abkhazians - only yesterday good neighbours. Tens of thousands of Georgians have been forced out of this blessed land, giving leaving their lives behind them.
      Nature abhors a vacuum and the empty house deserted after the exodus, is gradually colonized by inhabitants. Living in a strange house, where everything, even the tablecloths left by former residents are still there, begs the question - can it now give peace and happiness?