When Light Behaves Differently Towards Time

When Light Behaves Differently Towards Time

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 27, 2006

Runtime

1h 45m

Genres

Documentary, Fantasy

Original Title

Als het licht zich anders tot de tijd verhoudt

Production Companies

Geen Dank Produkties

Director

Jan Willem van Dam

Description

Filmmaker Jan Willem van Dam made a film in Georgia, following the Revolution of the Roses in 2003, on the borderline of fiction and documentary. The film is based on 'the life and dreams' of Nini Sardlishvili, a sixteen-year-old Georgian girl. Nini tells about her life and dreams, speaks with two elderly women about past and future and walks among the ruins of a huge, burnt-out Soviet archive. She plays herself in the film, just like the other protagonist, Domestic Intelligence agent Gocha Ovashvili. He travels across the country in response to a remarkable appeal by a Georgian minister (appearing in a newscast), to ask people if they are criminals. During this futile and absurd quest, he meets mainly aged Georgians, including a shepherd and two monks, and admires the scenery.