Since Otar Left is a 2003 film by director Julie Bertuccelli, based around three Georgian women living in modern-day Tbilisi. It focuses on the attempts of a mother and daughter, Marina and Ada , to hide the news of their brother's death from Marina's elderly mother, Eka . The film was widely well-received, and won the coveted Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The three women all live in the same run-down apartment in one of Tbilisi's oldest neighborhood. They bear many of the realities of life in modern Georgia, such as frequent power blackouts and dilapidated... infrastructure. Amidst this, Eka remains the matriarch of the family. She retains an often fractious relationship with her daughter, Marina, but is extremely close to her granddaughter, Ada. However, it is her beloved son, Otar, that she is most attached to.
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| Release date: | May 20, 2003 |
| Directed by: | Julie Bertucelli |
| Runtime: | 103 Minutes |
| Producer: | Yael Fogiel |
| Editor: | Emmanuelle Castro |
| Music by: | Antoine Duhamel, Arto Pärt, Dato Evgenidze |
| Cinematography: | Christophe Pollock |
| Screenplay by: | Julie Bertucelli, Bernard Renucci, Gotcha Djavakhichvili, Roger Bohbot, Alda Engoian, Miguel Machalski |