The Kartli Kingdom
In a crumbling sanatorium in Tbilisi refugee families fight to hold onto their home and fading dreams.
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- Documentary
Overview
"Kartli" refers both to Georgia’s medieval kingdom and a Tbilisi sanatorium sheltering refugees from the 1990s war in Abkhazia, meant as temporary but lasting 30 years. The crumbling building became a recreated “country”, with a farm, gardens, terraces and rooms where old VHS tapes revive memories of a lost paradise. Through Tamuna, Irma, and others, the film explores exile, trauma, and shared resilience, showing that nothing stays the same inside Kartli.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 16, 2025
- Original language
- Georgian
- Spoken languages
- Georgian
- Countries
- France, Georgia
- Production
- Sakdoc Film,Habilis Productions
- Director
- Tamar Kalandadze,Julien Pebrel
- Producer
- Ketevan Kipiani,Jean-Baptiste Bonnet
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt38690060