Directing
Anna Sarukhanova
Born
1994-12-16 (31)
Place of birth
Tbilisi, USSR (Georgia)
Known for
Directing
Credits
20 titles
Anna Sarukhanova is a Georgian film director whose works have been featured at renowned international festivals, including Locarno, Sarajevo, and Doclisboa. In 2017, she was selected as a Berlinale Talent. Her filmography includes the feature film "Inconceivable Light" and several documentaries, as well as "In One Year", a short film created for the German TV series Ab 18 (broadcast on the 3Sat channel). She has directed a 20-episode television series.
Known for
Set in Tbilisi, the film’s protagonist walks through the city’s streets as he contemplates whether to accept a job abroad or to stay at home with his family and girlfriend.
Away
2012
In the flow of ordinary days and thoughts trying to outrun the wind, sometimes there is a situation when it is necessary to make a choice and give up your sincere loneliness.
Elephant Sandbox
2013
NRFilm speaks about the reality that exists in Georgia in parallel with the other, the one that is in plain sight. The main character, trying to find and realize himself, loses the line between reality and illusion and loses an alter ego. After a desperate attempt to somehow realize his plans, he again "finds himself." This is a tender portrait of identity shot in a subtle mix between documentary and fiction.
Inconceivable Light
2022
NRVisualization of a Marina Tsvetaeva poem.
An Attempt at Jealousy
2017
NRRight after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many Russians who openly opposed the regime fled to other countries. More than 30,000 have found themselves in Georgia as they sought to avoid political pressure and sanctions. Their arrival, however, has not been universally welcomed as Russia occupies 20 percent of their host country's territory. Mitya, a young Russian activist, provides insight into a newly formed Russian community in the Georgian capital that is trying to establish itself during these uncertain times. Mitya and his friends have to prove they are victims of the Russian government, not aggressors...
The Flight 2022
2022
The project of Olga Zhirova and Julia Vorobieva
Как взрослые
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Behind the camera
Set in Tbilisi, the film’s protagonist walks through the city’s streets as he contemplates whether to accept a job abroad or to stay at home with his family and girlfriend.
Away
2012
Set in Tbilisi, the film’s protagonist walks through the city’s streets as he contemplates whether to accept a job abroad or to stay at home with his family and girlfriend.
Away
2012
In the flow of ordinary days and thoughts trying to outrun the wind, sometimes there is a situation when it is necessary to make a choice and give up your sincere loneliness.
Elephant Sandbox
2013
NRFilm speaks about the reality that exists in Georgia in parallel with the other, the one that is in plain sight. The main character, trying to find and realize himself, loses the line between reality and illusion and loses an alter ego. After a desperate attempt to somehow realize his plans, he again "finds himself." This is a tender portrait of identity shot in a subtle mix between documentary and fiction.
Inconceivable Light
2022
NRFilm speaks about the reality that exists in Georgia in parallel with the other, the one that is in plain sight. The main character, trying to find and realize himself, loses the line between reality and illusion and loses an alter ego. After a desperate attempt to somehow realize his plans, he again "finds himself." This is a tender portrait of identity shot in a subtle mix between documentary and fiction.
Inconceivable Light
2022
NRFilm speaks about the reality that exists in Georgia in parallel with the other, the one that is in plain sight. The main character, trying to find and realize himself, loses the line between reality and illusion and loses an alter ego. After a desperate attempt to somehow realize his plans, he again "finds himself." This is a tender portrait of identity shot in a subtle mix between documentary and fiction.
Inconceivable Light
2022
NRVisualization of a Marina Tsvetaeva poem.
An Attempt at Jealousy
2017
NRRight after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many Russians who openly opposed the regime fled to other countries. More than 30,000 have found themselves in Georgia as they sought to avoid political pressure and sanctions. Their arrival, however, has not been universally welcomed as Russia occupies 20 percent of their host country's territory. Mitya, a young Russian activist, provides insight into a newly formed Russian community in the Georgian capital that is trying to establish itself during these uncertain times. Mitya and his friends have to prove they are victims of the Russian government, not aggressors...
The Flight 2022
2022
The project of Olga Zhirova and Julia Vorobieva
Как взрослые
—
NRWhat do children do when the whole world is in isolation due to the coronavirus and they have to spend all their time at home? Do they go to online classes? Do they call friends? Improvise on the piano? Sunbath on the balcony? Do they easily adapt to their isolation? This film follows the lives of two small dreamers, stuck in isolation in Tbilisi during the spring of 2020, the spring of the coronavirus.
Landscape from a Window
2020
They’ve grown up and are ready to enter into a new world, in the anticipation of the exam to get in the Architectural Institute. The rest of life goes on in parallel, everyone has their own problems, their reasons to cry, to choke on grief. The line, which they have to cross, looms ahead.
To Get In
2014
7.0Spring is a time of love, lightness and endorphins. But the spring of 2020 turned out to be very different, isolating us from each other. The Vesna project tells 14 stories about people who, like all of us, found themselves in quarantine, but were able to learn something important and valuable from this experience. Moscow promoter Andrey Algorithmik, who self-isolated himself in the Powerhouse club he founded; Tbilisi gallerist Giorgi Rodionov, who started recording a podcast about dreams; sex blogger Alina Shikut, who launched an online course about accepting your body; a Director who went to a remote village, and a famous photographer who takes pictures of empty Moscow-14 documentary sketches add up to a General portrait of an optimist in quarantine: after all, spring is also a time of renewal.
The Project «Spring»
2020
Mariam is a 22 years old actress, she works in a cafe, where customers can order any companion they wish. Any can have a dinner with a best friend, a cup of tea with a grandfather, or coffee with a lover. One day she meets Levan in the cafe, a nature defender, who tries to change her point of view about the cafe she's working in.
The Perfect Order
2017
NRLena gets mixed up in an adventure of her girlfriend and agrees to participate in an exhibition. Unexpectedly she becomes a living statue: before hundreds of long- ing eyes, deprived of the possibility to move or speak – everything that remains is to meet herself and her inner enemies.
The Exhibition
2017
Two sisters bring a parcel to the grandfather’s house. The door is open and he is away. And because of that they have to make a choice.
Till the End of the Day
2016
Two sisters bring a parcel to the grandfather’s house. The door is open and he is away. And because of that they have to make a choice.
Till the End of the Day
2016
Two sisters bring a parcel to the grandfather’s house. The door is open and he is away. And because of that they have to make a choice.
Till the End of the Day
2016
2.3Five different stories about women - their loved ones, passion, family and what they really want in life.
Very Feminine Stories
2020
As Georgia descends into political turmoil, Nata returns from abroad to her recently deceased grandmother’s flat in Tbilisi. Upon discovering someone has been living there, she begins to uncover family secrets.
Hidden in Frame
2026
As Georgia descends into political turmoil, Nata returns from abroad to her recently deceased grandmother’s flat in Tbilisi. Upon discovering someone has been living there, she begins to uncover family secrets.
Hidden in Frame
2026
