Founded Films with Caucasian Context

LATE MARRIAGE (Israel/France) 2001 100 min. Director: Dover Kosashvili; Producers: Marek Rozanbaum, Transfax Film Production and Edgard Tenenbaum, Morgane Production. Executive Producer: Udi Yerushalmy; Distributor: New Yorker Films. In Georgian and Hebrew, with English subtitles. (Rated R-sexual content.) Set in Tel Aviv’s Georgian émigré community, this black comedy investigates what happens when a thirty-something bachelor is forced to choose between his own heart and the dominating will of his family.

Mountain Men and Holy Wars (Chechnya) 2002 56 min. Director/Producer: Taran Davies; Executive Producer: Donald Rosenfeld; Distributor: Wicklow Films. In Russian and Chechen w/English subtitles.
Join filmmaker Taran Davies and author Nick Griffin as they pursue the trail of the holy warriors of the Caucasus, travelling through Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia and Karabagh to tell the story of Imam Shamil, the 19th century Islamic freedom fighter and guru of today’s Chechen resistance to Russia.

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