Where Time Stood Still

Best Short Student Fiction Nino Benashvili Georgia, United States, Fiction, English, Georgian, 00:12:45

A widowed mother and daughter’s ascetic life in an isolated village in the Caucasus mountains is interrupted by the arrival of a foreign traveler in need of shelter. His presence awakens an erotic longing in both women, who are left to simmer in their guilty consciences after the traveler departs.

Film block: STUDENT FICTION / ON VIOLENCE AND ALIENATION

Screening:

Sunday 29-06-2025 / 21:00

Palace of Culture Pernik, Hall 2

Language English, Georgian
Country Georgia, United States
Genre Fiction
Cinematographer Shuli Huang
Scriptwriter Nino Benashvili
Producer Joecar Hanna, Natalie Remplakowski, Nino Benashvili, Tamar Tvaradze
Music Alexandra Funes
Editor Nino Benashvili, Reuben Hamlyn
Cast Jack Hubbell, Keta Lortkipanidze, Tamar Mdinaradze
Year of creation 2024
Duration 00:12:45

Director Nino Benashvili

Nino Benashvili is a writer and director from Tbilisi, Georgia, and a 2023 BAFTA scholar. She is currently a Grad film student at NYU Tisch. Her debut narrative short, Where Time Stood Still (2024), premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Her documentary Children of Nikozi (2021), about her childhood village bombed in the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, won Bronze Remi at Houston WorldFest and aired on PBS. She earned her B.A. from St. John’s College in philosophy and history of math and science.