KHIBULA

A man elected by his people to become the head of a newly independent country, gets ousted by a coup d´état shortly after. He flees into the mountains where loyal troops are rumored to be waiting for him. He plans to meet them and come back from his exile to regain his power. Full of hope he is following his guardians into the mountains, in order to regroup with his true followers and reach the popped-off glory times again. But the journey turns out to be a restless one, between trust and distrust, between hope and despair. His dreams blend with reality as his feelings of insecurity grow. Finally, he has to meet his fate.
“The film is not biographical. Even though it does not aim to be a political film, it will be such in a certain way, since the people know the story of our first president. In his last days, he stayed in the mountains with just a few supporters around him. But again, I‘m not on a certain side of the story. I try to be outside of the story, out of this situation. Maybe everybody will try to define which side I am on. I know it will be controversial. But I do my job, I try to say what I want to say.”

George Ovashvili