Fisketur | Out Fishing
Forum 2017
SWE 2017
by: Uzi Geffenblad
Fisketur | Out Fishing
Forum 2017
SWE 2017
by: Uzi Geffenblad
Fisketur | Out Fishing
Forum 2017
SWE 2017
by: Uzi Geffenblad
Feb 10, 2017Christoph Terhechte, Rati Oneli
After the film's premiere.
Forum – Mzis qalaqi | City of the Sun
Feb 10, 2017Film team
The team of the Georgian film during Q&A.
Forum – Mzis qalaqi | City of the Sun
Feb 10, 2017Rati Oneli
The director of the film during Q&A.
Forum – Mzis qalaqi | City of the Sun
Up to 50 percent of the world’s manganese, a vital metal across the globe, used to be mined in Chiatura, in western Georgia. Today, it resembles an apocalyptic ghost town. Mzis qalaqi portrays a few of the remaining inhabitants. Music teacher Zurab dismantles ramshackle concrete buildings and sells the iron girders to make some money on the side. Archil still works in the mine but his real passion is the local amateur theatre group. Despite being malnourished, two young female athletes still train stoically for the next Olympic Games.
In his documentary debut, director Rati Oneli provides fascinating insights into a living environment whose bleak industrial ruins appear at once colossal and like a film set. A jumble of clapped out electric wires and aging cable cars runs through the city like the clogged-up arteries of an ailing organism that resists the flow of life in untiring fashion. Mzis qalaqi brings home the ephemeral nature of utopias. In a city where the sun never shines, it’s only the inhabitants that generate warmth. Oneli succeeds in achieving far more than the mining companies are capable of: His camera brings that most valuable of resources to the surface – humanity.
by
Rati Oneli
Georgia / USA / Qatar / Netherlands 2017
Georgian
Documentary form104’ · Colour
Born in 1977 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He earned a Master’s degree in Middle East Studies in Tbilisi and then studied International Relations and International Media in New York. Rati Oneli also works as a producer and editor. Mzis qalaqi is Oneli’s first feature-length film.
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2017
OFA / Office of Film Architecture
Jim Stark
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