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    I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth

    Elene NAVERIANI 2017 Switzerland Fiction b/w 61min Georgian, English DCP
    The sun has not quite risen in Tbilisi, Georgia, when April is released after having spent another night in jail for prostitution. Although, for April and her fellow sex workers, the sun will probably never come up. They live in a masculine world in which women are a disposable commodity – something to vent your anger on. In the shadow of a luxury hotel, April meets Dije, a young Nigerian immigrant – an outsider even among outsiders. He once thought he was on his way to Georgia, USA, but ended up here instead. Another dream dashed. In this place, at the edge of the world where the only option is day-to-day survival , these two souls recognise one another's lonely journey. In this powerful debut filmed in black-and-white – how else – and with a layer of ink-black, biting humour, Elene Naveriani sketches lives in suspended animation – a living death, until death comes. The film title, adapted from postcolonial writer Frantz Fanon, represents the oppressed, their resistance to injustice, and their daily fight to survive. Shot in black and white, the film is influenced by the Italian Neorealists and Federico Fellini.

    Director

    Elene NAVERIANI

    Born in Georgia and based in Switzerland. Her highly-acclaimed first feature I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth, had its international premiere at IFFR and screened in 2017 WMWFF, Taiwan.

    Elene NAVERIANI

    2019 Red Ants Bite 紅蟻的咬痕

    2018 Lantsky Papa’s Stolen Ox

    2017 I am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth我是世上的一抹曙光

    2014 Gospel of Anasyrma

    2013 Father Bless Us

    Director : Elene NAVERIANI
    Producer : Britta Rindelaub
    Cinematoraphy : Agnes Pakodzi
    Editor : Gabriel Gonzalez
    Art Director : Tako Elizarashvili

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