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THE MOON IS A FATHER OF MINE Georgia-Germany-Bulgaria-Czechia-Luxembourg-Turkey, 2025, 100 min, color

Father and son test the boundaries of trust, loyalty and love on the eve of a pivotal event.

Twelve-year-old Toma is expelled from school after being relentlessly tormented by his classmates. His estranged father, Nemo, who disappeared when the boy was just two years old, invites him to their ancestral village. The locals do not embrace Nemo’s unwelcome return. But he doesn’t fear anyone and is determined to pass on the ancient tradition of deer hunting to his son. This fateful weekend Toma learns survival, independence, and the dark secrets of his father’s past.

George Ovashvili

George Ovashvili

George Ovashvili is a Georgian film director and screenwriter born in 1963. He is a graduate of the film department of the Georgian State University of Cinema and Theatre and the filmmaking department of the New York Film Academy at Universal Studios in Hollywood. His first feature film, The Other Bank, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. His second feature, Corn Island, won the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and took a top prize at the Trieste Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Academy's best foreign-language film in 2015.The Moon Is My Father is Ovashvili's sixth feature film and the Georgian director's most ambitious project to date.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

2005 Eye Level

2009 The Other Bank

2014 Corn Island

2017 Khibula

2022 Beautiful Helen

2025 The Moon is a Father of Mine

DIRECTOR
George Ovashvili
SCRIPT
George Ovashvili
CAMERA
Christos Karamanis
MUSIC
Josef Bardanashvili, Jakub Kudlac
CAST
Givi Chuguashvili, Badri Tabatadze, Giorgi Gigauri, Kira Andronikashvili, Otar Mikeladze
PRODUCERS
George Ovashvili, Fabrizio Maltese, Eike Goreczka, Filip Todorov, Karla Stoyakova, Mesut Ulutas
PRODUCTION
Wagonnet Films, 42film, Joli Rideau Media, Waterfront, Axman Production, Seven Peas Film

THE MOON IS A FATHER OF MINE Georgia-Germany-Bulgaria-Czechia-Luxembourg-Turkey, 2025, 100 min, color

PROGRAM

Odeon Cinema
20:45 h
Euro Cinema
18:00 h

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