The Other Bank
Screenplay by George Ovashvili and Rustam Ibragimbekov
Young Tedo Beqauri, a fifteen year old refugee from the Georgian provence of Abkhazia, is forced to flee, along with his mother, from Russian backed separatists engaging in ethnic cleansing. While his father remains in Abkhazia, Tedo and his mother live hand to mouth near Tbilisi, the capital of the Georgia Republic. When the relationship with his mother takes an unfortunate turn, he embarks on a solo journey back to Abkhazia to find his father. Along the way he deals with illegal arms traders, angry nationalists and Russian boarder guards. Yet nothing will stop him in his attempt to return home and find his father.
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ira
Latin (i’ra),n.f: anger,wrath, rage
Santa Fe, New Mexico. A young man stands among a crowd of men, some legal residents, most not. In a ritual performed around the United States every day, they wait for the opportunity to work. A rancher stops and chooses one young man, then heads south towards his ranch in the high desert. Along the way he picks up a hitchhiker who joins the young man in the back of the pickup. After the truck breaks down and the rancher heads for help, the two men find themselves alone, face to face. Recently unemployed, the hitchhiker senses an opportunity to lay blame for all of his-and society’s-problems.
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Homeboy
Nothing Stops a Bullet like a Job
Gabriel is a former gang member with two strikes. A third strike will put him in jail for life. Through Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, he and other at-risk youth have found jobs and support as they build a new life for themselves and their families.
A Film By Jim McSherry
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La Vérité Du Ciel
(The Plane Truth)
The crash of an Air France Airbus 320 enroute from Lyon to Strasbourg, France in 1992 killed 87 people. The ensuing investigation found fault with the pilots, controllers, manufacturers of the aircraft and it’s systems, and Air France. LA VÉRITÉ DU CIEL examines the impact of loss, as well as corporate and governmental disdain for the families of the victims. Children, wives and husbands, son and daughters speak with heart-breaking, sometimes shocking, truthfulness and intimacy about their grief, frustration, and anger, as their personal and legal journey winds through the French legal system for fifteen years.
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Searching For Sahra
After a childhood in Sydney, Australia dreaming of being a movie star, a young actress finds some success after moving to Los Angeles. The reality of show business soon overshadows Sahra’s minor accomplishments, which come at a cost she is unwilling to continue to pay. Intent on getting as far away as from Hollywood as possible, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union territory, now the Republic of Georgia to be exact, Sahra finds herself in the middle of the capital, Tbilisi, in the middle of their Rose Revolution in 2003. Thousands of miles from home, in a country where the political future is uncertain, the threat of violence everywhere, Sahra meets a young filmmaker who is trying to document the historic changes in his country.
Good Soldier
At the end of the Viet Nam war, a North Viet Nam officer arranges to have his pregnant wife and son sent to San Francisco to join other family members. Following them later, he becomes a very successful businessman, with his son and daughter at Berkeley. His seemingly perfect life begins to unravel when his past begins to be revealed through accusations from his daughter’s fiancée, who happens to be the son of the Governor of California, a former POW.
