Corn Island (2014)

	Directed by: Giorgi Ovashvili	COUNTRY Georgia/Germany/ France/Czech Republic/Kazakhstan GENRE Drama NORWEGIAN TITLE Corn Island RUNNING TIME 100 minutes
	Produced by: Guillaume de Seille Nino Devdariani Sain Gabdullin Eike Goreczka Christoph Kukula George Ovashvili Karla Stojáková
	Written by: Giorgi Ovashvili Roelof Jan Minneboo Nugzar Shataidze

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Old Man	İlyas Salman
Girl	Mariam Buturishvili

Review

An elderly Abkhazian man and his pubescent granddaughter settle for the summer on a small, fertile island in the middle of the Enguri River, where they build a simple hut and begin cultivating corn, while Abkhazian and Georgian forces patrol the river looking for an escaped Georgian soldier. Georgian filmmaker Giorgi Ovashvili aims for timeless cinema, heavy on allegory and sparse on dialogue. He lets the story unfold slowly, exploring nature’s cyclicity and humanity’s transience to at times poetic effect, although his imagery and conclusions may be somewhat too unremarkable to warrant this level of dawdling.