EMPTY NETS
Logline
To make enough money for the wedding with his love NARGES, the young Iranian man AMIR starts to work in a fishery. He gets mixed up with a group of men, who are illegally fishing the endangered sturgeon and finally has to take a fatal decision. In the end Amir will have the money to marry his love. But what price did he have to pay for that?
Genre: drama
current status: Pre-production
est. length: 100 min.
Director and author:
Behrooz Karamizade
funded by
THE DROPOUTS
Logline
Trickster Otto, pickpocket Ramsan and protection money extortioner SoSo aka "Stalin" suffer from the bad conscience that their profession implies. Together, the crooks forge a plan to rob only big gangsters. A plan that quickly becomes an adventurous and dangerous journey for the unusual trio.
genre: comedy
current status: script development
est. length: 90 min.
Director and author:
Giorgi Abashishvili
development funded by
PEOPLE FROM THE MOOR
Logline
A huge, impenetrable moor exists between Western and Eastern Europe.
The inhabitants there are in constant struggle with nature, they are free in the truest sense of the word. But this freedom is in danger, because the moor is to be drained and transformed into a canal.
Genre: creative documentary
current status: development
est. length: 52 Min. (tv), 70 Min. (cinema)
Director and author:
Aliaksei Paluyan
development funded by
ZWEI SCHAFE
Logline
MEHDI, an old Iranian man, fled to Germany with his son REZA 30 years ago.
But now, to the end of his life, the longing for his old home does not leave him.
He decides to move back to Iran. But he ignores his son REZA, who has already
built up a life in Germany. Old wounds break between them. A family drama against the background of a dramatic escape.
genre: Drama
current status: Production development
est. length: 100 min.
Director and Author:
Behrooz Karamizade
Script-development, production-development and production funded by
Heavy Baggage
The story of Gedevan Kartvelishvili
Synopsis
The 45 year old GEDEVAN has no right touch for money. The studied professor of archeology lives with his wife and his two kids in Tiflis, the capital of Georgia.
He teaches a handful of students at the local archaeological institute in the hope of being paid some day. But the institute is bankrupt, as well as the entire country. There's not much work around and to make matters worse refugees from one of the many wars with Russia are poring into the city.
Bad conditions for a subtle science like archeology. But to the grieve of his wife, who dreams of a better life, his daughter who wants to become a fashion model, and his son who wishes that his father is a strong man, GEDEVAN cannot help but digging into his research every day.
When his wife forces him to leave to the EU, earning money for the family, GEDENVANS daily life will come to a sudden change.
A film about the question what is more important for society: money or man?
genre: black comedy
current status: script development
est. length: 100 min
Director and Co-Author:
Giorgi Abashishvili