The Inguri River forms the border between Georgia and the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia. Tensions between the two nations have not abated since the war of 1992-93. Every spring the river brings fertile soil from the Caucasus down to the plains of Abkhazia and north-western Georgia, creating tiny islands: small clusters of no man’s land. Our story begins when an old Abkhaz farmer sets foot on one of the islands. The old man builds a hut for him and his teenage granddaughter, he ploughs the earth and together they sow corn. As his granddaughter blossoms into womanhood and the corn ripens, the old man is confronted by the inescapable cycle of life.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 40 min.
- Country, year
- Georgia, Germany, France, Czechia, Kazakhstan, Hungary, 2014
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Georgian
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- George Ovashvili
- Screenplay
- Nugzar Shataidze, George Ovashvili, Roelof Jan Minneboo
- Cinematography
- Elemér Ragályi
- Music
- Josef Bardanashvili
- Cast
- Ilyas Salman, Mariam Buturishvili, Irakli Samushia, Tamer Levent
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- in competition: Crystal Globe for Best Film, Award of Ecumenical Jury.
Director
George Ovashvili
George Ovashvili, born in 1963, graduated from the film department of the Georgian State Institute of Cinema and Theatre in 1996 and from the Hollywood branch of the New York Film Academy in 2006. He is involved both in documentary and feature film work, which he frequently also produces himself. He has made several remarkable short films, with Eye Level winning awards at Berlin and Odense in 2005. In 2009 his feature debut The Other Bank was screened at eighty international film festivals and won more than fifty international awards. Corn Island is his second feature film.
