A Room of My Own / Chemi otakhi
Germany, Georgia 2022
Directed by Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze, drama, 107 min, eng subtitles, 16+
Written by Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze, Taki Mumladze
With Taki Mumladze, Mariam Khundadze, Sophio Zeragia, Lashao Gabunia, Giorgi Tsereteli
Tina, a young woman who has lost her way in life, rents a room from flamboyant Megi. Not used to fending for herself, Tina waits patiently for her boyfriend to move to Tbilisi. But the situation does not go according to plan and Tina, thanks to Megi, begins to discover what it is like to be free and to make decisions for herself... One year after the premiere of his feature debut, Otar’s Death (screened at CinEast 2021), Ioseb ‘Soso’ Bliadze offers an impressively directed and extraordinarily authentic and vibrant “metropolitan” film that zooms in on the life and existential concerns of millennials in contemporary Tbilisi, while showing the lasting influence of patriarchal thinking on parts of Georgian society.
Awards:
Karlovy Vary IFF 2022 (Best Actress shared by the two protagonists)