DIRECTOR: LEVAN KOGUASHVILI
GEORGIA, 2010
A middle-aged, unemployed heroin addict, well-meaning Checkie loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son’s school where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and to understand her husband’s lack of interest in the family’s survival—even as the bank repossesses their furniture. But when a group of policemen blackmails Checkie into entrapping the son of his wealthy friend, husband and wife are unified by the uncertainty of their deepening moral dilemma and a series of worsening foul-ups, in Koguashvili’s lightly humorous yet realistic drama about the fate of a generation left behind in Georgia’s post-Soviet era. (86 mins.)
This year’s Georgian submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.