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CITY OF THE SUN

CITY OF THE SUN
 

Rati ONELI / digital / 104min. / 2017 (Georgia)
 
writer: Dea KULUMBEGASHVILI, Rati ONELI / producer: Rati ONELI, Dea KULUMBEGASHVILI / co-producer: Jim STARK, exec. producers: Archil KAVTARADZE, Zurab “ZUTIA” KAPANADZE / asst. director: Givi DATIASHVILI / cinematographer: Arseni KHACHATURAN
 
The lives, dreams and destinies of extraordinary characters unfold amidst the ruins of a semiabandoned mining town. A music teacher keeps demolishing the city to build a new life for himself and his family; a miner-turned-actor lives in a limbo unable to make a decision between his passion (theater) and money (working at the mines); and two malnourished champion athletes have to keep running just to survive.
Chiatura is a city in Western Georgia. There was a time when it was responsible for supplying 50% of the world’s manganese and at its peak, the mine employed up to 10,000 workers. Today, with drastically reduced manganese production, dangerous working conditions and little prospect for any improvement, it is well on its way to becoming a ghost town.
The city was founded by Georgian poets and aristocrats in the 19th century but was turned into a center of industry by the Soviet regime. For the Soviets, it was the embodiment of a bright, utopian future. American billionaire Harriman made huge investments and lived there; theaters, universities, concert halls, stadiums and parks were built, along with the first and largest public aerial cable-car transportation system in the world. Chiatura was a human and technological experiment on a grand scale that ultimately failed.
 

Rati ONELI

Born 1977 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Studied Oriental Studies, International Relations and International Media in New York. He is a director, producer and editor. City of the sun is his first feature film.
 

 

Schedule

TOKYO:5/4 11:00, 5/6 21:15 U program
KYOTO:5/12 13:45 U program
FUKUOKA:6/3 11:30 U program
NAGOYA:6/23 18:40 U program
 
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