GURIA

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Languages: Georgian

Subtitles: French / German / English / Bulgarian

Format: HD – Black&White

Sound: 5.1

Duration: 100 min

Countries: Georgia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Bulgaria.

Year: 2026

SYNOPSIS

The collapse of the USSR has not brought the promised riches to Guria in western Georgia. The electricity supply is erratic, and policemen steal trolleybus cables to sell as scrap. Zuriko, a 45-year-old widower and hazelnut farmer, refuses the meagre sums that Italian buyers offer for his harvest. His best friend, Gela, helps him search for better buyers and introduces him to potential wives, but they inevitably fail to satisfy Zuriko’s disapproving mother-in-law. In Guria, Zuriko’s world constantly shifts between hardship and absurdity, beauty pageants and violence, love and sadness, and singing.

CREDITS

Director: Levan Koguashvili

Script: Boris Frumin, Levan Koguashvili

DOP: Gigi Samsonadze, Georgy Shvelidze

Decors: Kote Japaridze

Music: Georgy Gordeladze

Editing: Pia Dumont

Grading: Franck Ravel

Cast: Kakhaber Chiladze, Natia Nikolaishvili, Vamekh Jangidze.

Production: Kino Iberica (GE), Cineworx (CH), Tarantula (LU), ArtFest (BG)

Supported by the Georgian Ministry of Culture/ Creative Georgia, Georgian National Film Center, Swiss Film Fund, Zurich Film Fund, Bulgarian National Film Center, Luxembourg Film Fund, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Georgian TV, Hubert Bals Film Fund, SorFond Film Fund, Eurimages, Red Sea Fund