Release Date

01 Jan, 2014

Runtime

00:15: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Filmed in parks and markets within and beyond Tbilisi, and also in the ancient hermetic cave networks of Davit Gareja on the desert border with Azerbaijan, Birdboy and the General unfolds within a specifically Georgian reality to tell a larger story of place and purpose, control and change, aspiration and refusal. Given life by the evocative creations of Abkhazian puppeteer Denis Gonobolin, it speaks to forms of belonging rooted and realised in imagination, and looks to celebrate the potency of play, something slightly absurd, a skewed juxtaposition and leap of faith, to redirect the course of events, whether personal or public.

Original Title

Birdboy and the General

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Actors

Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Crew

Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Denis Gonobolin

Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Stephen Connolly

Gareth Evans

Gareth Evans