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13 TZAMETI / Gela Babluani FRANCE, 2005, 93 MIN An extraordinarily assured debut feature, 13 Tzameti won the top prize at Sundance. Owed money, and lacking any direction in life, Sébastien decides to take the place of a dead man on a mysterious mission. Sébastien doesn't know what the man did, but he does know that it was awfully lucrative. Thus begins his journey towards a contemporary vision of hell, a world in which anything, even one's life, is a commodity to be bought, sold, or wagered on. With several extraordinary scenes not for the faint-hearted, 13 Tzameti is less shocking for what it shows than for its portrait of the amoral world it so convincingly captures. Son of a major Georgian director, Gela Babluani is a talent to watch. The son of award-winning director Temur Babluani, Géla Babluani was born in Tblissi, Georgia in 1980. At 17, to escape the civil war, he was sent to Paris where he developed a passion for cinema. He made his first short film, A Fleur de peau, in 2002. 13 Tzameti is his first feature film.

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