Arseni Khachaturan

City of the sun

A FILM BY RATI ONELI

Film is a surreal vision of a post-apocalyptic ghost town and its several inhabitants. The lives, dreams and destinies of the characters unfold amidst the grand ruins of once “glorious” soviet architectural and technological achievements in a semi-abandoned mining town.

Director: Rati Oneli

Producer: Dea Kulumbegashvili

CO-PRODUCER: Jim Stark

PRODUCTION: OFA (Office of Film Architecture)

GEORGIA / DIGITAL

 

Festivals: Berlinale International Film FestivaL 2017, Sarajevo International Film Festival - Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film, 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Sheffield - ArtDoc Award, 17th DocumentaMadrid - Best International Feature Film Prize, Wiesbaden GoEast Film Festival - Award of the Federal Foreign Office for Cultural Diversity, Batumi Art House International Film Festival - Special Mention, Bergamo Film Meeting - Winner, The CGIL Commission Prize, Minsk International Film Festival - Special Jury Award, Minsk International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Award, MiradasDoc International Documentary Film Festival - Best Documentary, San Francisco International Film Festival - Special Mention, Golden Gate Award, Tbilisi International Film Festival - Best Film, ZagrebDox - Special Mention, Indie Lisboa, Dok.Munich, Freiburger Film Forum, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Image Forum, Japan, Sarajevo International Film Festival, Goethe-Institut de Paris, Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF e.V., INDIE Festival BraziL, MakeDox, 14th Vilnius Documentary Festival

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