Special Screenings · 46th Edition
Imago
IMAGO
Director
Déni Oumar Pitsaev
Country
France, Belgium
Runtime
1 h 49 min
Language
Chechen, Russian, Georgian
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
When Déni inherits a small patch of land in the wild, beautiful valley of Pankissi, he sees a chance to finally build the house in the trees that he's dreamed of since he was a boy. But nothing in the rugged Caucasus is ever simple. Returning to a village just across the Chechen border where he was born - a place he barely knows - Déni stirs up old feuds, buried family dramas, and above all, the question everyone keeps asking: when, and with whom, is he finally going to get married?
Screenplay
Déni Oumar Pitsaev, Mathilde Trichet
Producers
Alexandra Mélot, Anne-Laure Guégan, Géraldine Sprimont
About the Director
He was born in Chechnya, grew up between Grozny, St. Petersburg, and Almaty. He studied at Sciences Po in Paris before turning to cinema, later earning a BA in film directing at INSAS in Brussels and an MA in audiovisual arts at LUCA School of Arts, St. Lukas Campus. Déni is an alumnus of the Locarno Filmmakers Academy and IDFA.
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