The lives, dreams and destinies of extraordinary characters unfold amidst the ruins of a semi-abandoned mining town in Western Georgia, which used to provide half the world’s output of manganese and is today a ghost town searching for its place in the 21st century. The film tells the personal stories of those that remained, among them a music teacher, a miner turned actor, and two athletes with Olympic dreams.
Genre: Documentary
Awards: Madrid International Documentary Film Festival – Best International Feature Film, 2017
Sarajevo Film Festival – IDFA Award, 2016
Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival – Art Doc Award, 2017
Wiesbaden Go East – Award of the Federal Foreign Office, 2017