HOW SOSRUKO STOLE FIRE FROM THE GIANT

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LITTLE MAN, TIME AND THE TROUBADOUR

HOW SOSRUKO STOLE FIRE FROM THE GIANT

By Ineke SMITS

THE FILM KITCHEN - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2018

Abkhazian artist Sipa Labakhua travels around his small, unknown native land, provoking audiences with his autobiographical one man marionette show. A road movie that sheds new light on a highly topical question in a world that is on fire: What is a country?

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dok Leipzig 2019

Rotterdam IFFR 2020

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS
- Director(s)
- Ineke SMITS
- Producer(s)
- Ineke KANTERS (THE FILM KITCHEN), Jan VAN DER ZANDEN (The Film Kitchen), Peter KRÜGER (INTI FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Every country has a national myth, often featuring a legendary king, warrior or martyr who battles for his homeland. These myths play an essential role in the creation of national identity. Featuring various heroes of flesh and blood, LITTLE MAN, TIME AND THE TROUBADOUR forms an alternative national myth for small and unrecognized Abkhazia.
  Born in Abkhazia and raised in Soviet Georgia, Sipa Labakhua had to flee with his family to Moscow when the USSR collapsed and war broke out early 90’s. Years after his untimely return to his warridden birthplace, Sipa takes to the road with his autobiographical one-man marionette show. While provoking audiences with his own history of displacement and war, he collects the personal memories and dreams of people from different backgrounds: Abkhazian nationalists, Orthodox priests, Syrian refugees, Georgian farmers and Russian hippies.
  Bypassing political propaganda and combining elements from documentary, fiction and animation, this road movie sheds a poetic
  Director’s statement:
  light on a highly topical question in a world that is on fire: what is home, what makes a country?

LITTLE MAN, TIME AND THE TROUBADOUR

HOW SOSRUKO STOLE FIRE FROM THE GIANT

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