(idfa.nl) A filmmaker returns to her home country of Georgia to make a
documentary about the lives of young people there. Wanting to get in
touch with youngsters from every social background and part of the
country, she announces through a variety of channels that she's going to
organize a casting call. The leitmotif of this film is the search for
the ideal protagonist, with interviews with the candidates and scenes
from their day-to-day lives. The boys and girls responding to the call
are radically different from one another, as are their personal reasons
for auditioning. Some want be famous movie stars, while others simply
want to tell their story. And one girl wants to call her mother to
account, after having been abandoned by her years before.
Thirteen-year-old Ramin has to work hard in the small mountain village
where he lives, helping care for his handicapped family members. And
Gotcha defends his brother, who's serving 25 years in jail. These
extraordinary and touching stories about war, love, dreams and poverty
paint a kaleidoscopic picture of a modern society that still echoes with
its Soviet past.
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Georgia 2011. A film director announces a casting for 15-23 year old
youth. Here are many people who answer the call: some are ready to
share their sentimental stories or seek the strength to carry out their
major resolutions... A film about how beautiful life can be and how
difficult when you dream of being a hero. The protagonists of this film
live and dream this heroism, whether they run from reality or face it
head-on. They are old and they are very young, just beginning their
lives. But they are all united in the poetry of searching.
