Deda-Shvili an rame ar aris arasodes bolomde bneli (Mutter und Tochter oder die Nacht ist niemals vollkommen finster)

Is life about encounter or separation? Georgian director Lana Gogoberidze asks this question at the beginning of the film using a series of photos: like a film miniature, she can be seen as a child embracing her mother Nutsa. The

In Gogoberidze's family of intellectuals and artists, filmmaking follows a matrilineal logic in the third generation. Nutsa Gogoberidze was Georgia's first female director, then separated from her family for ten years as a Gulag prisoner and cut off from her censored work for the rest of her life. Lana Gogoberidze and her daughter Salome Alexi set out to bring together the pieces of Nutsa's life. Her film is an autobiography, a declaration of love and a work of mourning - Lana Gogoberidze's legacy, and also that of her mother.