Falling Leaves
Iosseliani’s debut feature—winner of the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes—follows newly minted oenologists Nico and Otar, just out of winemaking school, as they head to work at an agricultural cooperative in Tbilisi, there to have their first intimate experiences of the opposite sex… as well as their introduction to the corruption bred by stifling bureaucracy and arbitrarily imposed production quotas. A stinging satire of Soviet-style economic planning and its unintended consequences smuggled within a pseudo-documentary depiction of the Georgian wine industry, and a deeply personal film about youth for the first time facing up to the full measure of adult negligence and corruption.
New 4K restoration commissioned by Pastorale Productions.
Distributor: The Cinema Guild
Inroduction by programmer Edo Choi on Sunday, August 16th
4K DCP