Irakli Apakidze

Experimental short film based on the original play 'THE FORTY' by Howard Barker.

Huub is a tired businessman who enters an old, luxurious but totally empty hotel. Every time Huub presses the reception bell, his interest is drawn by a new sound, coming from all kind of rooms. In those rooms he finds guests from the hotel who are stuck in their movement. They act like a rundown LP. At first Huub doesn't know how to handle himself in this strange situation, but after a while he starts to experiment with the guests. He discoverers he has the power to control and move them. This new found power can do strange things to people..

Misha, an idealist dreamer suffering from severe epilepsy, collects abandoned memories of lost ones. He believes “Love” can make miracles. In the only tavern of the abandoned town, which is aside by the Zone, other fellow smugglers mock Misha. However, Eva, a beautiful young woman with a maternal nature who works at the tavern, has a great admiration for Misha’s innocence. She seeks to enter the Zone with Misha in the hope to find her missing son Gabriel despite she has been told to accept the fact that he is gone forever. There are some rumours that dead people appeared alive in the Zone if they have been truly loved and missed.

The young protagonist of the film is in love with an older woman with children, and this further complicates his already tense relationship with his family and friends. Swimming against the current is accompanied by many difficulties, and this woman is the only solace for Temo.

The story of a Georgian applicant to VGIK, forced to hide the story of his repressed father.

Road workers, having paralyzed traffic on a busy street, dig a well into which they intend to lower a concrete pipe. Two passers-by watch them...