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The other Bank (Gagma napiri) Passenger Side
GEORGIA
Cross-eyed, 12-year-old Tedo is a refugee from the Georgian-Abkhazian
CANADA
The setting of this quirky, funny road movie is the county of Los
Director: George Ovashvili conflict who lives with his young mother, Keto, in a ramshackle shanty Director: Matthew Bissonnette Angeles – from the city to the surrounding desert. Along for the ride
Producer: Sain Gabdullin on the far edge of a Tbilisi suburb. Neither knows if his father, who Producer: Corey Marr
are two estranged siblings: overbearing older brother Michael (Adam
Screenwriter: Nugzar Shataidze
stayed behind in Abkhazia, is still alive. They toil at menial occupations
Screenwriter: Matthew Bissonnette
Scott) has reluctantly agreed to ferry Tobey (Joel Bissonnette) to various
Cinematographer: Shahriar Assadi
– he in an auto repair garage, she as a clerk, and find their pleasures
Cinematographer: Jonathon Cliff
destinations, ostensibly to accomplish chores his younger brother can’t
Editor: Kim Sun-Min
where they can. Tedo runs street scams with a compatriot and gets high
Editor: Matthew Hannam
handle himself because his car has broken down. Tobey’s an actor and
MS: A to Z
Cast:
with his fellow preteens. His mother, meanwhile, has taken a lover to
Lia Abuladze, Nika Alajajev, Cast:
a recovering addict; Michael’s a novelist whose only book sank like a
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Adam Scott, Joel Bissonnette,
il
Tedo Bekhauri, Galoba Gambaria,
make ends meet. So when Tedo runs afoul of the law, he decides now
Robin Tunney, Gale Harold, Greg Dulli,
stone shortly after it was published. Their chitchat runs from hockey
il
Temo Goginava might be a good a time as any to go find his father. Rachael Santhon
talk to riffs on the sexiness quotient of the Bush administration. But it’s
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2009 / color / 90 min.
2009 / color / 85 min.
Michael’s birthday, and this isn’t exactly how he’d planned to celebrate.
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The road to Abkhazia, though beautiful, is fraught with danger. If life
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as a refugee was no picnic, life as a runaway refugee, Tedo discovers, is As events unfold, it becomes clear that the agenda of the trip isn’t what
GEorGE oVaShViLi
even harder; the extent of the lawlessness that the war has unleashed
MaTThEW BiSSonnETTE
it seemed – and that issues of trust are going to resurface just as the
Originally from Tbilisi, Georgia, across the land is far beyond what a boy can handle. Still, he doesn’t
Matthew Bissonnette studied English
brothers are forging a new bond. Various mysterious encounters with
George Ovashvili graduated from the
turn for home; he knows that his only real hope lies ahead, and his and film at Concordia University in his off-the-radar oddballs, appearing at first to be part and parcel of their
Georgian State Institute of Cinema
determination to reach his father helps him deal with whatever comes
hometown of Montreal. He later went
haphazard adventure, prove in the film’s final moments to be tightly
and Theatre in 1996 and the New York
on to study law at Queen’s University,
Film Academy at Universal Studios in
his way. woven threads in the real story, one that has only been hinted at all
only to retire from law for film two
Hollywood in 2006 to work as a stage
along.
weeks after passing the bar. Also a
actor and director. Two of his short In this gripping and at times devastating feature debut, Georgian
writer, Bissonnette’s first novel, Smash
films, Eye Level and Wagonette, have
director George Ovashvili coaxes a standout performance from nonpro-
Your Head on the Punk Rock, was
Scott, also appearing at this year’s festival in The Vicious Kind, earned
won awards at several film festivals.
fessional lead Tedo Bekhauri with the help of a truly international crew published in the spring of 2008. high praise for his role opposite Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in Step
The Other Bank is his feature film
Brothers; Joel Bissonnette’s numerous TV appearances include The
debut.
drawn from Georgia, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Czech
Republic, Israel, Lithuania, South Korea, and the United States. Ovashvili
Filmography
Mentalist and House. And the latter’s brother, writer/director Matthew
Looking for Leonard (2002)
is one of five first-time filmmakers who was nominated by the European
Who Loves the Sun (2006)
Bissonnette (Who Loves the Sun, SDFF 29), puts them both to good use
Film Academy in late September for the European Discovery Award. here. Granted, luck was on his side throughout the production’s 14 days
of filming: his crew was stopped twice by police for lacking permits and
being in areas forbidden to filmmakers – but on both occasions, officers
relented and let the cameras roll.
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