Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
New Directors/New Films 2024
April 3 - 14, 2024
Writer-director Elene Naveriani’s third feature tells the funny, tender, and erotic story of 48-year-old Etero (Eka Chavleishvili), an unmarried shopkeeper in a Georgian village who is mocked as a spinster by her gossipy friends even as she secretly carries on a torrid affair with a married man.
Winner of the grand prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry is the funny, tender, and erotic story of 48-year-old Etero, an unmarried shopkeeper in a Georgian village mocked as a spinster by her gossipy friends even as she secretly carries on a torrid affair with a married man. Georgian cinema is famous not only for the quality of its absurdist storytelling but also for the predominance of women filmmakers throughout its history; now we can celebrate the arrival of writer-director Elene Naveriani and actress Eka Chavleishvili, as the defiantly independent, pleasure-seeking Etero, boldly upholding this rich tradition.
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