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Water Has No Borders

Maradia Tsaava

Georgia / 2021 / 85' / Documentary / Italian premiere

A Georgian film director appears at a remote, gigantic dam which is only one part of a hydro power station that has been divided by a borderline after the conflict between Georgia and its separatist province Abkhazia. Waiting for a permit to see the other half, she becomes close to the people whose lives have been destroyed by the political turmoil of the past, and listens to the secret stories revealing the true life around the border.

Language: Russian, Georgian

Subtitles: Italian

Director

Maradia Tsaava

Documentary filmmaker born in 1990, Tbilisi, Georgia. After a MA program of Multimedia Journalism and Media Management at Georgian Institute of Public affairs, she is actively involved in the film industry contributing short films and video stories. WATER HAS NO BORDER is her first full-length documentary film.

Awards

Premio per i Diritti Umani

Ed. 2022

For the originality of the account, which transformed every obstacle into an opportunity to take an attentive and profound look at a “small” local story, exploiting the universal significance of pivotal issues, and for the effective approach to crucial matters such as war, frontiers and the merciless cold-heartedness of bureaucracy, taking shape with intense representations of broken relationships and indestructible vitality.

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