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Motherland of One Pebble, The

Georgia
2008, 40min.

Prod., Script: Merab Beridze, Ucha Bluashvili, Davit Jafaridze, Dir./Dir. of Phot.: Sandro Darakhvelidze, Edit.: Marina Germanishviii, Sandro Daraxvelidze, Mikheil Bagdavadze, Mamuka Mazavrishvili, Besarion Ormocadze, Ana Mchedlishvili, Mzia Lomtatidze

The film is dedicated to Meskhetian Turks, who migrated from Georgia in 1944, their history, nowadays life, and their integration back into the Georgian society. The film shows the repatriated people of elder and younger generation, who have gained back their Georgian last names and some of them still remember the villages they used to live in before migration and their Georgian past. The aim of the film is to help them in self-determination and in their integration, to show their problems to the society, their being and the history. Historians, experts and the members of Georgian Human Rights Committee took part in the film.

Darakhvelidze, Sandro

Sandro Darakhvelidze (born 1981, Tbilisi, Georgia)
Darakhvelidze graduated from the Tbilisi State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts.

Filmography

I am the Citizen of Georgia, The Motherland of One Pebble.

SPONSORS AND PARTNERS

Ministry of Culture & Youth Affairs of RA Moscow Cinema The European Cultural Foundation