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Director: Levan Koguashvili <\/strong>
\n Georgia \u00a0 | \u00a0 2010 \u00a0 | \u00a0 86 minutes <\/strong>
\n Georgian, with subtitles in English<\/strong><\/p>\n

A middle-aged, unemployed heroin-addict, Checkie, loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son\u2019s school, where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and understand her husband\u2019s lack of interest in the family\u2019s survival\u2014even as the bank repossesses their furniture. But when a group of policemen blackmails Checkie into entrapping the son of his wealthy friend, husband and wife are unified by the uncertainty of their deepening moral dilemma, and a series of worsening foul-ups, in Levan Koguashvili\u2019s lightly humorous yet realistic drama about the fate of a generation left behind in Georgia\u2019s post-Soviet era.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Bates College Museum of Art\u00a0presents GLOBAL LENS 2011-2012<\/strong><\/em>
\n Organized by the Global Film Initiative, the series draws from cinematic talent across the planet, with a focus on Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.\u00a0 Ten feature length films comprise the 2011 series.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director: Levan Koguashvili Georgia \u00a0 | \u00a0 2010 \u00a0 | \u00a0 86…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":6001,"template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_bates_event_start":"2012-03-19 19:00:00","_bates_event_end":"2012-03-19 21:00:00","_bates_event_allDay":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"event-tag":[],"class_list":["post-6000","bates_events","type-bates_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"start":"2012-03-19T19:00:00","end":"2012-03-19T21:00:00","location":{"rendered":"

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