When the Sea Was Calm by Mamuka Tkeshelashvili

Title: When the Sea Was Calm
Original title: When the Sea Was Calm
Year of production: 2025
Running time: 17 min
Country of production: Georgia
Target audience: All audiences
Premiere: –
Technique: Cut-outs, Puppets
Language: –

Director: Mamuka Tkeshelashvili
Production company: Caucasian Film Service
Producer: Vladimer Katcharava
Sales / Distribution Company: –

Request screener: Caucasian Film Service

Synopsis:
On the eve of war in Sokhumi in 1992, 13-year-old boy experiences first love. When violence forces the girl to flee, his childhood ends. Decades later, he returns to the ruined city, chasing a summer that can never return.

Stage of a project: finished