Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
Etero runs a modest convenience store in a Georgian backwater. Still a virgin at 48, she is constantly the subject of gossip and mockery about her situation. She couldn’t care less, but suddenly discovers love, first love, and though it shakes her to the core, it does nothing to disrupt her deep-rooted independence. The film is carried by an actress with impressive solidity and vulnerability (also reflected in the camera work): sensuality overtakes pure sexuality, just like in the title. A blackbird perched tentatively on a bramble while blackberries are picked from the bush.
Artistic & technical sheet
Eka Chavleishvili (Etero), Teimuraz Chinchinadze (Murman)
Screenplay
Elene Naveriani, Nikoloz Mdivani
Photography
Agnesh Pakozdi
Sound
Marc von Stürler, Philippe Ciompi
Production design
Teo Baramidze
Editing
Aurora Franco Vögeli
Adapted from
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry by Tamta Melashvili
production
Alva Film Production (Switzerland)
Thomas Reichlin
Britta Rindelaub
+41 3217038
prod@alvafilm.ch
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coproduction
Takes Film (Georgia)
Ketie Danelia
foreign sales
Totem Films
+33 7 67 76 46 22
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international press
Wolf Consultants
Laurin Dietrich
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