Chemi bednieri ojakhi | My Happy Family
Forum 2017
DEU/GEO/FRA 2017
by: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß
Ia Shugliashvili
Chemi bednieri ojakhi | My Happy Family
Forum 2017
DEU/GEO/FRA 2017
by: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß
Giorgi Khurtsilava, Dimitri Oragvelidze, Merab Ninidze
Chemi bednieri ojakhi | My Happy Family
Forum 2017
DEU/GEO/FRA 2017
by: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß
Ia Shugliashvili,Tsisia Qumsishvili
Feb 13, 2017After the premiere
The film team.
Forum – Chemi bednieri ojakhi | My Happy Family
Feb 13, 2017Simon Groß
One of the directors of the German-Georgian film.
Forum – Chemi bednieri ojakhi | My Happy Family
Feb 13, 2017Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß
Together they realised the film.
Forum – Chemi bednieri ojakhi | My Happy Family
Feb 13, 2017Ia Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze
The main actors of the film.
Forum – Chemi bednieri ojakhi | My Happy Family
Feb 14, 2017Tsisia Kumsishvili, Merab Ninidze, Giorgi Khurtsilava
The team members taking a selfie in front of the w o l f Kino after the screening of their film.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Chemi bednieri ojakhi | My Happy Family
Manana tears open the windows of her new flat and won’t be closing them again. Distant street noises, cheerful birdsong and the gentle sound of the wind form the soundtrack to her new life. The 52-year-old has left her family, without justifying her actions, without any arguments. There doesn’t seem to be any fixed reason for her having moved out. When she’s asked why, she doesn’t say anything and thus turns the question around. It’s more family structures themselves from which Manana wishes to extricate herself. The roles you have to play, the functions you have to take on so that things keep running smoothly, but which also lead to your going under or becoming invisible. Now Manana sits at the open window, playing the guitar and singing Georgian songs, whose melancholy rhythm infuses the film. Whenever she happens to return to the family home, everything seems just as she left it: the grandmother is roasting a chicken, the grandfather is contemplating death, the adult children are waiting for their lives to finally begin, her husband Soso is chain-smoking and the wardrobe continues to squeak.
by
Nana & Simon
Germany / Georgia / France 2017
Georgian
120’ · Colour
Ia Shugliashvili (Manana)Merab Ninidze (Soso)Berta Khapava (Lamara)Tsisia Qumsishvili (Nino)Giorgi Khurtsilava (Vakho)Giorgi Tabidze (Lasha)Goven Cheishvili (Otar)Dimitri Oragvelidze (Rezo)
Born in 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia. She studied Acting and Screenwriting at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam. In 2012, she and Simon Groß founded the production company Polare Film.
Filmography2007 Dakarguli Khmeleti (Lost Mainland); 22 min. 2011 Deda (Waiting for Mum); 8 min. 2013 Grzeli nateli dgeebi (In Bloom); 102 min., Berlinale Forum 2013 2017 Chemi bednieri ojakhi (My Happy Family)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018
Born in Berlin in 1976. He studied Directing at the University of Television and Film Munich. With Marc Wächter, he founded the production company Indiz Film in Germany, and with Nana Ekvtimishvili, he started Polare Films in Georgia.
Filmography (selection)1998 Sündenfall (Fall of Man); 19 min. 2001 Nachtrausch (Elated by Night); 13 min. 2007 Fata Morgana; 90 min. 2013 Grzeli nateli dgeebi (In Bloom); 102 min., Berlinale Forum 2013 2017 Chemi bednieri ojakhi (My Happy Family)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2017
Augenschein Filmproduktion
Polare Film
Arizona Productions
Memento Filmswww.memento-films.com