Scene from the film The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
Scene from the film The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
Scene from the film The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
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The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear

Direction
Year 
2012
Country
  • Germany
  • Georgia
Duration
98min 
Subtitles 

A filmmaker puts out a casting call for young adults, aged 15- to 23. The director wants to make a film about growing up in her home country, Georgia, and find commonalities across social and ethnic lines. She travels through cities and villages interviewing the candidates who responded and filming their daily lives. The boys and girls who responded to the call are radically different from one another, as are their personal reasons for auditioning. Some want be movie stars and see the film as a means to that end; others want to tell their personal story. One girl wants to call to account the mother who abandoned her; one boy wants to share the experience of caring for his handicapped family members; another wants to clear the name of a brother, currently serving a jail sentence. Together, their tales weave a kaleidoscopic tapestry of war and love, wealth and poverty, creating an extraordinarily complex vision of a modern society that still echoes with its Soviet past.

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Details

  • Original title
    Manqana, romelic kvelafers gaaqrobsgeo
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Tinatin Gurchiani
  • DOP
    Andreas Bergmann
  • Editing
    Doreen Ignaszewski, Nari Kim
  • Music
    Marian Mentrup, Mahan Mobashery
  • Sound
    Marian Mentrup, Michal Krajczok
  • Duration
    98 min (91+ min.)
  • Year
    2012
  • Country
    • Germany
    • Georgia
  • Colour
    • Colour
  • Distribution
  • Festivals
    • Festivals / Awards
    • DOK Leipzig 2012
    • IDFA Amsterdam 2012
    • Tbilisi IFF 2012 (Award for Best Georgian Film)
    • Alpe Adria Cinema FF Trieste 2013
    • Sundance 2013 (Directing Award in the World Cinema Documentary Competition)
    • Göteborg IFF 2013
    • MoMA Documentary Fortnight New York 2013
    • ZagrebDox 2013
    • True/False FF 2013
    • One World HRFF Prague 2013
    • Sofia IFF 2013 (Award Best Documentary)
    • Hong Kong FF 2013
    • Thessaloniki IDF 2013
    • Docudays Kyiv 2013
    • It's All True IDF 2013 (Best Documentary in the Int. Feature or Medium-Length Film Competition)
    • Panama IFF 2013
    • Documentary Edge IDF New Zealand 2013
    • Hot Docs IDF Toronto 2013
    • DOK.fest Munich 2013
    • Planete Doc Review IDF Warsaw 2013
    • Underhill FF Podgorica 2013 (Dandelion Award in Int. Comp.)
    • Makedox IDF Skopje 2013
    • Sydney IFF 2013
    • AFI Docs FF 2013
    • Open City Docs Fest London 2013 (Special Mention)
    • Jerusalem IFF 2013
    • Golden Apricot IFF Yerewan 2013
    • Lemesos IDF 2013
    • Sarajevo IFF 2013
    • Dokufest Prizren 2013
    • Duhok IFF 2013
    • Cambridge FF 2013
    • Message to Man St. Petersburg FF 2013
    • Reykjavik FF 2013
    • Nuremberg HRFF 2013
    • Festival des Libertés Brussels 2013 (Smartbe Award)
    • Viennale 2013
    • Listopad FF Minsk 2013
    • cph:dox Copenhagen 2013
    • Ambulante Gira de Documentales 2014
    • Women’s FF Créteil 2014
    • Vilnius IFF 2014

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