A young man leaves his village to go into the city to audition to enter a dance company. He then is involved in illegal activities such as boxing and sleeping with men for money. Unwillingly, he falls in love with a man and suddenly is accepted in and starts dancing in the company. But his life will turn upside down when his lover goes to war and he returns to his village.
Direction
Koberidze's patient, observational eye never judges his protagonist.
Cinematography
Georgian landscapes that feel like characters watching silently.
Acting
Bochorishvili's physicality speaks where dialogue fails.
Director
Alexandre Koberidze
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Georgia with non-professional actors, reflecting the country's tensions between Soviet legacy and fragile independence.
The title's impossible wish becomes literal: summer represents his brief window of belonging, and the film denies us even seasonal comfort.
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