Mother and Daughter or the Night is Never Complete

It is 1930. A bitterly crying 2-year-old child is seeing her mother off on her way to a film shooting. An elderly man turns to the mother and asks her where she was going to and whether it was worth the child’s tears. The film attempts to answer this question.

The woman leaving for film shooting is Nutsa Gogoberidze — the first female filmmaker in Georgia and one amongst the first in the Soviet Union. The 2-year-old child is Lana Gogoberidze. Today, a 95-year-old filmmaker. In the 30s, Nutsa shot two films immediately banned by the Soviet censorship. In 1937, during the times of Great Terror, she was arrested and exiled for 10 years. Greatness paired with modesty: 93 years old (at the time of the film) and a daughter, world-famous director Lana remembers her mother Nutsa, Georgia’s first woman filmmaker. A cinema legacy that revolves around being human in dark times: feminist, loving, critical of violence.