Dinola

Synopsis

The mountains, strict law doesn’t give a chance to be together mother with her child. In the harsh mountainous countryside of Svaneti (Georgia). Happiness is brief and the love of life of the Dina dies. Tradition says she must marry to the first man who offers his hand and leave her child…

Director Biography

Born in 1986, in Georgia, Mariam Khatchvani studied Film Directing at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film State University. She directed many short documentaries: Verdzoba (2006), Beyond the Window (2007), and Lichanishi and Kvirikoba (2009). Dinola (2013) is her first fiction short. It has been invited on many important film festivals: 36th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 37th Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad nominee to EFA…