2012 · Documentary film · 29 / 37 min
Let Our Lives Continue in Others
- Role
- Director
- Recognition
- Kinoshock · Batumi · STALKER · DocPoint · Docudays UA
A documentary film from Georgy Molodtsov’s long-form nonfiction practice, also known internationally as Borderline Effect.
Let Our Lives Continue in Others follows a family divided by the Abkhazian-Georgian war and by the borders created after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Eighteen years later, Georgy Molodtsov and his mother try to restore family connections.
A family story inside a political border
Guzella Nikolaishvili had lost contact with her brother and sister after the war. When she learns that they became refugees in Tbilisi, she travels toward a family reunion and a grave that cannot be reached freely.
Personal documentary direction
The film uses the director’s own family as its subject. Questions of memory, obligation and inherited conflict are therefore present both in front of the camera and in the filmmaking process.
Borderline Effect
The film formed part of the Borderline Effect documentary project and circulated through Russian and international festivals, markets and human-rights programmes.
Recognition & circulation
- Special Prize, Kinoshock 2012
- STALKER Human Rights Film Festival, Special Jury Prize within Borderline Effect
- Window to Europe 2012
- Batumi International Art-house Film Festival 2012
- Docudays UA competition 2013
- East Silver library selection 2013
- Krakow Film Market 2013
Credits
- Role
- Director
- Producer
- Sergey Miroshnichenko
- Director of photography
- Sergey Amirjanov
- Music
- Yury Negrebetsky
- Production
- Studio Ostrov
- Format
- Documentary · 37 minutes