Rati Tsiteladze
A SONG WITHOUT HOME
This immersive journey follows a young trans woman seeking freedom in Europe and her mother facing estrangement in Georgia, bound by love, longing, and the search for self-liberation across divided worlds.
SYNOPSIS
Locked away by her parents for eleven years, Adelina, a young transgender woman from a Georgian village, flees to Vienna. As she navigates newfound freedom, the scars of her past and the hostility her mother faces back home for supporting her complicate her new life. Through intimate and immersive imagery, the film paints a layered portrait of exile, belonging, the mother-daughter bond, and the complexity of freedom beyond physical liberation.
DIRECTOR
Rati Tsiteladze
PRODUCER
Olga Slusareva
PRODUCTION COMPANY
ArtWay Film
COUNTRY
Georgia
Rati Tsiteladze
RATI TSITELADZE is a European Film Academy Award-nominated filmmaker. He is an alumnus of the Locarno Academy, the TIFF Filmmaker Lab, Berlinale Talents, and the Cannes Résidence. His short films have won more than fifty awards and have been screened at around 300 festivals worldwide, including at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the Melbourne International Film Festival, and the Locarno Film Festival. His short film PRISONER OF SOCIETY won multiple Academy Award-qualifying prizes and was nominated for the European Film Academy. Tsiteladze was awarded the Moulin d’Andé Prize at the Festival de Cannes and, at the Toronto International Film Festival, he received the HFPA Film Independent Award.
Production company profile
Founded in 2014 in Georgia with Olga Slusareva as its director, ArtWay Film focuses on art-house films and cinematic documentaries. Its works have screened at more than 400 festivals, including the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the Melbourne International Film Festival, and the Locarno Film Festival, earning numerous awards and a European Film Academy nomination. The company's projects have featured at the Festival de Cannes, the Berlin, Karlovy Vary, and Toronto International Film Festivals, Visions du Réel, and CPH:DOX, and have received awards such as the Eurimages Award at TIFF, the HBO Max Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival, and the HFPA Film Independent Award.