My Happy Family

My Happy Family

2017 · 119 min · KA · 7.0 (62 votes)
Dir. Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß · Starring Ia Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze, Berta Khapava, Tsisia Qumsashvili, Giorgi Khurtsilava, Goven Cheishvili
Drama

In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents’ home and live alone. Without her family and her husband, a journey into the unknown begins.

VIBE

A quiet, simmering tension underlies this portrait of a family bound by tradition. It feels like a slow exhale of unspoken resentments and the dawning of a woman's quiet rebellion against suffocating domesticity.

unsettlingclaustrophobicmelancholictenseslow-burndomestic dramacharacter-drivenrealisticindependencefamily dutysocietal expectationsfemale agency
family relationshipstbilisithree generations