In Bloom

Natia and Eka are 14 and growing up fast in 1992 in Tbilisi, as civil war rages after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But the problems of disillusioned love, early marriage and oppressive male dominance will suddenly be thrown into sharp relief when one of the girls is given a gun… A thrilling, moving and engrossing drama, inspired by Nana’s personal memories of her youth in the troubled early 1990s in Georgia.

Ten years since the premiere of the film in the Berlin Film Festival, referred to as the birth of the new Georgian wave, we are delighted to welcome Nana Ekvtimishvili to London for the first time. Her 2017 film My Happy Family won the director’s prize at Sundance and her first novel The Pear Tree was published in English in 2020 and longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize.