April, is released from jail after having been busted as an illegal sex worker. In the basement of a luxury hotel where she works in Tbilisi, she meets Dije a young Nigerian man. Believing that he's made it to Georgia in the United States, he finds himself caught in a country that offers him no future. Between lust and survival, in the searing heat of the capital, a strange relation emerges between these two individuals living in the fringes of society.
d: elene naveriani / p: alvafilm and myshkinfilm / 2017 / switzerland, georgia / feature / hd
AWARDS (a selection)
Semana Internacional de Cine, Premio Mejor Dirección de Fotografía 2017 (Winner) Agnesh Pakozdi
Belfort, Entrevues - Festival International du Film de Belfort, Mention spéciale pour le long-métrage 2017 (Winner)
FESTIVALS (a selection)
Créteil, 40e Festival International de Films de Femmes Créteil
Genève, 16e Festival International du film sur les droits humains
Angers, 30e Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers
Belfort, 32e Entrevues Belfort - Festival international du film
16th Roma Independent Film Festival
62. Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid
Sao Paulo, 41a Mostra Internacional del Cinema de Sao Paulo
Fünf-Seen-Land, 11. Fünf Seen Filmfestival
Linz, 14th Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz
Rotterdam, 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam
Solothurn, 52. Solothurner Filmtage
Tbilisi, Tbilisi International Film Festival
Vienna, This Human World Int. Filmfestival der Menschenrechte