Editor
This short film captures the beauty of a process that has persisted since the Stone Age. Sharing one of the recurrent stylistic motifs of the Georgian documentaries shown here, an uncanny atmosphere is created by the use of post-production sound and chiaroscuro lighting. In effect, the removal of the bread from the oven is witnessed with the same sense of wonder as would greet the appearance of a flying saucer. When sticking the dough to the tandoor, the baker moves half of his body into this dungeon – an image at once frightening and mesmerising. Nowhere else has bread been seen like this, save perhaps for Night of the Living Bread (Kevin S. O’Brien, 1990). But this is hardly a parody: here the most essential human foodstuff meets an expressionist sensibility. In fact, along with Manoel de Oliveira’s O Pão (also showing this year), Khabazebi presents some of the most beautiful images of our daily bread on screen.
Assistant Editor
Georgy es un viejo campesino que trabaja en la industria vinícola. Comienza un épico viaje a pie para visitar a su hijo, que ha sido herido en la guerra y se encuentra en un hospital. Sin embargo, para cuando Georgy consigue llegar al hospital, su hijo ya se ha marchado y ha sido enviado de nuevo al frente. Esto lleva a Georgy a emprender un nuevo viaje para encontrar a su hijo, siendo testigo por el camino de la caída y derrota del fascismo. (FILMAFFINITY)
