Iosif Bardanashvili

ジョージアとアブハジアの間で起こった独立をめぐる紛争の真っ只中、境界線上の川にできた小さな中洲に小屋を建て孫娘と共にとうもろこしを育て始めたアブハズ人の老人。銃弾が飛び交う土地で伝統を守りながら淡々と畑を育み続ける老人とそれに従う孫娘の姿が、セリフを極力回避した独特の映像表現で語られてゆく。やがて収穫が近づく頃、負傷した若いジョージア兵が中洲に流れ着いたことから、歯車が少しずつ狂い始める・・・。

Life creates many obstacles for 12 years old boy - Tedo. Tedo belongs to the generation, which was forced to mass displacement because of the civil war in Abkhazia, one of the most beatiful places in Georgia. The civil war took away everything Tedo had, even hope. The film tells about an extraordinary internal drama of a little boy, his thoughts, feelings, pasions, sorrows and efforts to take arms against the difficulties.