As an orphan for Jana, motherhood has always been priceless. When years later, she’s raising a kid, single and homeless, Jana becomes a surrogate to offer her daughter the life she never had. Nine months and 14.000USD. Is it that simple and priceless?

In Samegrelo, a Georgian region bordering the de facto state Abkhazia, tensions have been maintained since the 1992 conflict. A family has staked its future on cultivating a blueberry field, but their young sons have dreams beyond this uncertain land.

A moving story about a closed religious community in Ukraine living away from the modern world and in harmony with nature. Their society is divided between those who respect its traditions and those facing its limits and questioning this way of life.

I, the daughter of a Georgian tiger mother, travel around classrooms and observe children to help portray my childhood. I juxtapose these images with my mother’s letters, reflecting her attempt to transform me from a restive child into a model citizen.

A filmmaker and a soldier, who both experienced the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, set off on a road trip to overcome their survivor’s guilt. They are returning to the war-torn areas in search of a renewed, mulberry-infused taste of life.

Susanna is the director of the Art School of Togh, a village occupied during the 2020 war opposing Armenia to Azerbaijan. Supported by the faculty, she tries to bring education back in the midst of a fragile peace.

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