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FTT Talks presents:
13 (Tzameti)
Director GELA BABLUANI
in person!
Friday, February 23, 2007, at 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm
Browning Cinema
Tickets: $6, $5 faculty/staff,
$4 seniors, and $3 all students
Official Web Site
Directed by Gela Babluani
NR, 86 minutes
French language with English subtitles
35mm Print
Sponsors: Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Department of Romance Languages, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, Why Not Productions, Palm Pictures and DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.
Géla Babluani
Géla Babluani is the son of the famous Russian director Temur Babluani. Gela studied in France where he developed a passion for early Soviet Cinema. The force of the images and the power of the editing made a lasting impact on his sense of aesthetic in film. He has sought to recreate this same force in his own film images, drawn to the violence that men exert over other men.
13 (Tzameti)
Sebastien, leads an impoverished life with his immigrant family. He eavesdrops on a conversation which appears to offer a solution to his money troubles. The overheard instructions lead him into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors, in which men gamble on the lives of others men. TZAMETI won major awards at the 2006 Venice Film Festival and Sundance Film Festivals. The American remake of this film is currently in pre-production.