Merab Ninidze

A love story spanning two continents, Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. (Zeitgeist Films)

Mamlakat (Khamatova) is 17, she is beautiful and vivacious and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress... (imdb)

The day after the fumeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. But the corpse keeps returning, and the police eventually capture a local woman accusing her of digging it up. She says that Varlam should never be laid to rest, as when he was alive he was responsible for a Stalin-like reign of terror that led to the disappearance of many of her friends... (imdb)

Bavaria after World War II: the young countrywoman Maria falls in love with Jean-Pierre, a former French prisoner of war, while the rest of the family still believes in the return of her husband Hans from Russia. Nevertheless, everybody accepts the relationship, but suddenly Hans, now totally haggard and uncaring, comes back. The desperate situation drives Maria to an extreme... (imdb)

Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people... (imdb)

Valeri Sikorski knows from his doctors that his days are numbered because of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He wants to make a last adventure in his life and goes to England, but first he stops in Berlin to pick up his best friend Victor. But Victor has disappeared. Now Valeri's journey turns into a search for his old friend Victor. (imdb)

Granddad Giorgi never tires of telling his two young grandchildren fantastic stories about their father; the super hero Dato who is on a highly dangerous and secret mission. Truth is, though, that their father is a meteorologist who has spent the last couple of years behind bars. When he eventually returns he has a hard time living up to the image that has been created of him. (Kosmorama.no)

Kazakhstan, early 1961. Daniel Pokrovsky, a medical officer, currently works for the first Soviet cosmonauts' troop. (Venice Film Festival)

A bizarre riverbank in fog and snow. Bits of steel and concrete are strewn all around. The skeleton of a skyscraper. Unfinished motorway bridges in a flat landscape. The giant figure of a metal horse. And a statue of Lenin whose outstretched right arm points into nothingness. A cold, ossified no man's land where the washed-up past meets an imagined future. People drift aimlessly through this surreal world... (berlinale.de)

Alexi leaves the house of his father and stepmother and rents an apartment. He wants to be independent and find his place in the world. But no basic changes ensue - he has the same friends, with the same trivial conversations and the same inactivity. (FilmAffinity)

Movie describes real events that took place in 1983 when seven young Georgians, all from intellectual elite families, attampted to flee the Soviet Union by hijacking an airliner. The crisis ended with a storming of the airliner by Soviet special forces that resulted in eight dead. The surviving hijackers were subsequently tried and executed. (imdb)

In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents' home and live alone. Without her family and her husband, a journey into the unknown begins. (imdb)

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis. (imdb)

Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after newborn's death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, determined to provide care others hesitate to offer, despite risks. (imdb)