REQUIEM TO THE HOT DAYS OF SUMMER
Georgia, Greece I 75 min
Director: Giorgi Parkosadze
Producer: Tamta Tvalavadze, Angelos Tsaousis
Editor: Fernando Restelli
Production company: Attic Production, Filmografik Productions
Mother and son – a sensuous portrayal of an innate unbreakable bond, defined by the invisible burden of care, silence and solitude in an isolated mountainous gorge in Georgia.
GURI and his mother, SANATA, have spent all of their life in a remote mountainous gorge in Georgia, distanced from nearly any signs of urban civilization. Farming, beekeeping, and cheesemaking have been their lives’ routine for decades.
While witnessing the daily life of mother and son, the audience is immersed in the non-verbal, contemplative relationship the two have, and through the camera’s gentle gaze, effortlessly enters into the rural reality as an inseparable part of their being.
Through an utterly touching motherhood story, REQUIEM TO THE HOT DAYS OF SUMMER embraces sadness, silence and solitude, which follows every human being as the primordial seal of their fate and brings up reminiscence of a blissful way of life, which is still present in the unconscious memory of humanity.
GIORGI PARKOSADZE
GIORGI PARKOSADZE is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and editor from Tbilisi, Georgia, who has always been curious to meet strangers, share their stories and collect their images in memory, as he believes memory is one of the main traits that defines us as human beings. Giorgi has a MA in multimedia journalism and is currently studying at DocNomads to obtain a MFA degree in documentary film directing. His upcoming documentary is his debut feature-length film as a director. Up until now, he has done several short films, one of which premiered at CinéDOC-Tbilisi IDFF in 2019.
Director’s statement
Since my teenage years, I have struggled to connect with the urban life of the capital city where I was born and raised. My family comes from a mountainous region and although I have never lived there, my sense of belonging is deeply connected to it. For years, I have been curious of what life would be like for me in an extremely isolated environment and while working on the film I experienced all of the layers of rural life.
Living together with GURI and SANATA set me on a four-year-long mysterious journey, which made me integrate with their being and helped me find myself in the space that I longed for. The long sweltering summers and unbearably freezing winters gave me invaluable lifelong friendships, together with deep personal growth.
In contrast with the fast-paced, loud urban life of the XXI century, the film portrays the universal and relatable motherhood bond, all the while becoming an intimate self-portrait rooted in reminiscence of the life I dreamt of but never had.
TAMTA TVALAVADZE
TAMTA TVALAVADZE is a storyteller and aspiring producer based in Tbilisi, with over ten years of experience producing high profile projects for international publications such as New Yorker and National Geographic Georgia. As the co-founder of ClickMedia, a multimedia outlet that aims to provide an independent perspective on social events through innovative forms of storytelling, she produced long-form, cross-border projects in Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova and the Caucasus. She has also produced several short documentary films.
Where are we at?
Production budget: 168.000,00 EUR
Needed for completion: 118.000,00 EUR
Territories: Worldwide except Georgia
Release: 30.12.2022.
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Production company profile
ATTIC PRODUCTION is a newly established Georgia based production company co-founded by Giorgi Parkosadze and Tamta Tvalavadze, after several years of professional cooperation. We have a huge passion for producing documentary films and long-form audiovisual and transmedia projects with strong social-political position and artistic voice. Currently Attic Production is working on completing its first feature length documentary film - REQUIEM TO THE HOT DAYS OF SUMMER - which last year triumphed in the competition of Georgian National Film Center, winning first place and receiving production funding.