Liza is in her mid-forties and works for Georgian television. During a live broadcast, she receives a phone call from an Abkhazian friend. Her past has caught up to her, or more precisely: 1992 and '93 have, when the friend in question was fighting for Abkhazian independence, and Liza was working as a war reporter and advocating for Georgian independence. Like her on-screen heroine, Nana Janelidze, screenwriter of the Perestroika cult film REPENTANCE (directed by Tengiz Abuladze,1984/87), is not afraid to look the difficult history of contemporary Georgia in the face. Lurking in the background, painfully evident: Russia's post-Soviet imperial interests.
Liza is in her mid-forties and works for Georgian television. During a live broadcast, she receives a phone call from an Abkhazian friend. Her past has caught up to her, or more precisely: 1992 and '93 have, when the friend in question was fighting for Abkhazian independence, and Liza was working as a war reporter and advocating for Georgian independence. Like her on-screen heroine, Nana Janelidze, screenwriter of the Perestroika cult film REPENTANCE (directed by Tengiz Abuladze,1984/87), is not afraid to look the difficult history of contemporary Georgia in the face. Lurking in the background, painfully evident: Russia's post-Soviet imperial interests.
