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    Brighton 4th

    Carmel International Competition

    The melancholy-infused narrative neatly balances rueful humor with genuine sweetness.

    Variety
    • Archive - Festival 37
    • Director: Levan Koguashvili
    • Georgia, Russia, USA, Bulgaria, Monaco 2021
    • 95 minutes
    • Georgian, English
    • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

    Former wrestling champion Kakhi (Levan Tediashvili, himself a former Olympic wrestling champion) is devoted to his family. This leads him to leave his modest home in Georgia and travel to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, to visit his son Soso. Soso is supposed to be studying medicine. Instead, Kakhi finds him living in a shabby boarding house populated by a colorful group of fellow Georgian immigrants and working for a moving company. And Soso owes $14,000 to a local mob boss.

    Winner of the Best International Film Award at the 2021 Tribeca Festival, Brighton 4th is a bittersweet study of family, community and masculinity. Following the success of Blind Dates (Haifa IFF, 2014), Levan Koguashvili’s new film is infused with tragicomic moment, compassion and melancholy. 

    Filmography: Blind Dates (2013), Street Days (2010).

     

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    • Director Levan Koguashvili
    • Production Irakli Rodonaya, Olena Yershova, Michel Merkt, Kateryna Merkt
    • Script Boris Frumin
    • Cinematography Phedon Papamichael
    • Editing Sasha Frumin, Davit Kiknadze, Elene Asatiani
    • Actors Gonzalo Cunill, Iñigo Martínez, Núria Lloansi, Núria Prims
    • Festivals Tribeca 2021 (Best International Film Award, Best Actor, Best Screenplay(, Karlovy Vary
    • Source Loco Films, Paris