BRIGHTON 4th

Director - Levan Koguashvili

Script - Boris Frumin

Camera - Phedon Papamichael

Cast - Levan Tediashvili, Georgi Tabidze, Nadya Mikhalkova, Kakhi Kavsadze

Producers - Irakli Rodonaya, Olena Yershova, Michel Merkt, Kateryna Merkt

Co-producers - Boris Frumin, Stefan Kitanov, Mira Staleva, Abylay Zhakashov

Production - Kino Iberica, Moskvich Films, TatoFilm, Art Fest, Broken Cage Studio

The story of former wrestling champion Kakhi whose devotion to his family leads him on a journey from his home in Tbilisi to visit his son Soso in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. There he finds him living in a shabby boarding house populated by a colorful group of fellow Georgian immigrants. Soso is not studying medicine, as Kakhi believed, but is working for a moving company to repay a gambling debt to a local mob boss. Kakhi sets his mind to helping his son, leading to situations as often comic as they are dire.

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FUNDED BY Georgian National Film Center, Bulgarian National Film Center

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Tribeca’ 21 – Best Film, Best Actor (Levan Tediashvili) and Best Screenplay (Boris Frumin and Levan Koguashvili)

Program

14.09.2021
SOFIA SUMMER FEST - 18.30 часа
15.09.2021
”LUMIERE LIDL” CINEMA - 20.30 часа

Levan Koguashvili

Levan Koguashvili was born 1973 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied film at the Tbilisi University, at the Russian State Institute of Film (VGIK) and the New York University Graduate Film Program. Between 2002 and 2007 he lived in New York where he made several short films and documentaries. In 2008 he moved back to Georgia to shoot his first feature length fiction film Street Days. The film is based on his own script, which won the feature script competition organized by the Georgian National Film Center. Street Days received the "Tiger" award at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The premieres of his second film Blind Dates (2013) are at the festivals in Toronto and Berlin. The film received more than 20 international prizes including the Grand prize "Sofia - City of Film" at Sofia International Film Festival.

FILMOGRAPHY

2006 The Debt – short
2009 Women from Georgia – doc.
2010 Street Days (Quchis dgeebi)
2013 Blind Dates (Brma Paemnebi)
2016 Gogita's New Life
2021 Brighton 4

BRIGHTON 4th / Brighton 4th

Georgia-Russia-Bulgaria-Monaco-USA, 2021, 95′, color, movie, drama, premiere Bulgaria

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Program

Levan Koguashvili