A child with a bleeding nose, sitting at the window in a bus and his young father whose nose is bleeding too. The young father tries to wipe the blood from the child’s nose, but because his own nose is bleeding too, It keeps on dripping on his shirt, and whenever he tries to wipe his own blood away, the same happens to the little boy – not about this is the Film. In the Film can be seen a Boy, a Girl, a Dog, a Boat and a River – and all this through a prism of tears in different geometric shapes.
Direction
Koberidze turns repetition into emotional architecture.
Cinematography
Tears as prisms: every frame refracts heartbreak differently.
Sound
Dual voiceovers weave intimacy and distance like a lullaby.
Director
Alexandre Koberidze
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Koberidze emerged from Georgia's slow cinema tradition, where Tarkovsky's influence meets post-Soviet emotional austerity.
The circular structure mirrors Georgian oral storytelling—each repetition deepens rather than resolves, honoring grief as process, not destination.
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