Gestern wurde im Künstlerinnen Klub "Fatimas Erwachen", GE, 2009, 30 Min. der georgischen Dokumentarfilmerin Natia Arabuli gezeigt. Der Film begleitet ein Jahr lang die 17-jährige Tschetschenin Fatima, die von den Kriegswirren in ein Bergdorf im Nordosten Georgiens verschlagen wurde. Natia Arabuli dokumentiert den schmerzhaften Entwicklungsprozess einer jungen Ehefrau, gefangen in patriarchalischen Familienstrukturen bis zur Geburt ihrer Tochter, die ihr unverhofft Mut gibt, ihr Leben selbst in die Hand zu nehmen.
Natia Arabuli wurde 1967 in Tschuba, Georgien geboren. Nach abgeschlossenem Philologie-Studium und Lehrtätigkeit studierte sie Fernsehregie in Tiflis und realisierte kurze Dokumentarfilme. Ihre Regieausbildung vervollständigte sie durch ein Aufbaustudium an der Bayerischen Akademie für Fernsehen. 2004 kehrte sie nach Tiflis zurück und gründete eine eigene Produktionsfirma; parallel dazu arbeitet sie als Dozentin an der Filmakademie. (Programm 3sat)
Natia Arabuli is a philologist and has studied film at Tbilisi university. She teaches now at the famous Film Academy Tbilisi, where all the great Georgian directors (Iosseliani, Parajanoff) come from.
Arabuli's documentary "Fatima's Awakening" 2009, was produced by 3sat/ZDF and shown there last year.
It's on the life of a 17-year-old Chechenyan girl, who escaped from the war in Grosny 80 km to Pankissi Valley in the Georgian Caucasus mountains.
The daily life of Fatima and the difficult situation of her pregnancy and the relation with her Georgian husband is shown without explanation or superior commentary. You are sharing Fatima's life, as if you were with her like a friend. There is no more difference between seeing the film and being there.
Asked how she achieved this, as Fatima and the other protagonists are no actors, Natia Arabuli tells, that over months she gained the trust of the refugees in Pankissi valley by visiting them regularly. For the making of the film she really lived with the family and became a close and self-evident member. "Fatima's Awakening" was done with a complete female team.
At the moment Natia Arabuli does a filmed autobiography and her script "Beyond the Mountains" will be produced this year.
The screening of Natias film was followed by a vivid 40 min. discussion of the very interested audience on cultural and gender similarities and on Arabulis fascinating formal qualities of intimate documentation. (patricia london ante paris)
Natia Arabuli wurde 1967 in Tschuba, Georgien geboren. Nach abgeschlossenem Philologie-Studium und Lehrtätigkeit studierte sie Fernsehregie in Tiflis und realisierte kurze Dokumentarfilme. Ihre Regieausbildung vervollständigte sie durch ein Aufbaustudium an der Bayerischen Akademie für Fernsehen. 2004 kehrte sie nach Tiflis zurück und gründete eine eigene Produktionsfirma; parallel dazu arbeitet sie als Dozentin an der Filmakademie. (Programm 3sat)
Natia Arabuli is a philologist and has studied film at Tbilisi university. She teaches now at the famous Film Academy Tbilisi, where all the great Georgian directors (Iosseliani, Parajanoff) come from.
Arabuli's documentary "Fatima's Awakening" 2009, was produced by 3sat/ZDF and shown there last year.
It's on the life of a 17-year-old Chechenyan girl, who escaped from the war in Grosny 80 km to Pankissi Valley in the Georgian Caucasus mountains.
The daily life of Fatima and the difficult situation of her pregnancy and the relation with her Georgian husband is shown without explanation or superior commentary. You are sharing Fatima's life, as if you were with her like a friend. There is no more difference between seeing the film and being there.
Asked how she achieved this, as Fatima and the other protagonists are no actors, Natia Arabuli tells, that over months she gained the trust of the refugees in Pankissi valley by visiting them regularly. For the making of the film she really lived with the family and became a close and self-evident member. "Fatima's Awakening" was done with a complete female team.
At the moment Natia Arabuli does a filmed autobiography and her script "Beyond the Mountains" will be produced this year.
The screening of Natias film was followed by a vivid 40 min. discussion of the very interested audience on cultural and gender similarities and on Arabulis fascinating formal qualities of intimate documentation. (patricia london ante paris)
