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SPEECHLESS
დადუმებულები
12' 2006
documentary / experimental
The 2008 Georgia-Russia War resulted in the deaths of several hundred people and expulsion of tens of thousands from South Ossetia. Is there a way to show the tragedy of families that lost their loved ones, thousands of people forced to leave their homes, soldiers doing the fighting, and children who cannot comprehend the situation? Salomé Jashi answers this question in a way that leaves few apathetic, though the horrors of war are never visible on the screen. Her short film is based on an interesting formula of making the audience witness to a tragedy it never sees.
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Produced by Sakdoc Film and Artefact production
Directed by Salomé Jashi
Filmed by Tato Kotetishvili
Sound Nika Paniashvili
Speechless is part of the documentary film series ’10 Minutes of Democracy’
Support
Georgian National Film Center, Open Society – Georgia Foundation and British Council
Festivals and Exhibitions
Message to Men. St. Petersberg. 2019
Center of Contemporary Art – Tbilisi. As part of the exhibition ‘A fragment of Time which is not Recorded’. April-May 2011
International Experimental Film Festival. Bucharest. 2010
Human Rights Arts and Film Festival. Australia. 2010
Tbilisi International Film Festival. 2009
WATCH DOCS human rights in film. Warsaw. 2009
Ro-IFF, Romania. 2009
Bolzano Film Festival. 2009
Jihlava International Film Festival. 2009
DocumentART – Germany/Poland. 2009
DocuDays International Documentary Film Festival Human Rights. Kiev. 2009
One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. Prague. 2009
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