The Men's Land (2025)

Original title

კაცების მიწა

Directed by

Mariam Khatchvani

Genre

documentary film

Country

Georgia, Hungary

Runtime

15 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 22 year old woman named Ana prepares to leave her remote village in Georgia for the city to study singing. The film follows her as she moves toward her dream of a new life.

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What happens

The Men's Land (Georgian: კაცების მიწა, romanized: k'atsebis mits'a) is a 2025 short documentary film written and directed by Mariam Khatchvani. The film starring Anna Ushkhvani, documents the story of twenty-two-years old Ana, who is on the verge of fulfilling her dream: leaving the remote village of Ushguli for the big city, where she hopes to study singing. The film had its world premiere in International Medium Length & Short Film Competition at the Visions du Réel on 9 April 2025, and its regional premiere at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival on 20 August 2025, in the Competition programme - Documentary Film, where it won Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Documentary Film award. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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