GONDOLA

Director - Veit Helmer

Script - Veit Helmer

Camera - Goga Devdariani

Music - Malcolm Arison, Soley Stefansdottir

With - Mathilde Irrmann, Nini Soselia, Niara Chichinadze, Zviad Papuashvili

Producers - Tsiako Abesadze, Veit Helmer

A cable car connects a village in the mountains with a small Georgian town in the valley. Iva starts working at the cable car as an attendant. The cable car has two gondolas. When one gondola goes up, the other goes down. The gondolas meet each other half way. The attendant of the other gondola is Nino. Iva and Nino meet each other as they drive past every half hour, giving them a moment of elation and celebration each time.

Program

21.03.2024
LUMIERE CINEMA - 20.30 часа
22.03.2024
VLAIKOVA CINEMA - 19.30 часа
31.03.2024
FRENCH INSTITUTE – SLAVEIKOV CINEMA - 16.00 часа

Veit Helmer

Veit Helmer (born 24 April 1968) is a German film director and screenwriter. He started shooting films at the age of fourteen. After finishing school he was trainee at German TV station NDR. Two month before the wall came down, he moved to East-Berlin to study theatre directing at the famous drama school "Ernst Busch". From 1991 to 1997 Helmer studied film directing at HFF Munich. His first feature film Tuvalu earned more than 32 awards. His 2008 film Absurdistan was premiered in Sundance and entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival.

FILMOGRAPHY

1989 Tour d'amour – short
1990 Bandits (Die Räuber) – short
1992 Within Grasp (Zum Greifen nah) – short
1993 The Window Cleaner (Der Fensterputzer) – short
1994 Tour Effel – short
1995 Surprise! – short
1999 Tuvalu
2000 City Lives: Berlin – doc.
2001 House of Joy (Freudenhaus) – short
2001 Uzbek Express! – short
2001 Be Careful at Night (Hati-Hati, Malam-Malam!) – short
2003 Gate to Heaven
2004 Georgian Summer – short
2005 Boom – short
2005 Behind the Couch: Casting in Hollywood – doc.
2005 Caspian Bride – short
2008 Absurdistan
2009 Dushanbe with Love
2011 Baikonur
2014 Quatsch und die Nasenbärbande
2018 The Bra

GONDOLA

Germany-Georgia, 2023, 85′, color, movie

Program

Veit Helmer