Runaway

26'
Georgia 2022
fiction, debut, drama
Director Salome Kintsurashvili
Scriptwriter Salome Kintsurashvili
DOP Anton Gromov
Producer Anastasia Gerasyuk
Cast Sandro Baidarashvili, Gera Tsintsadze, Marian Kantaria, Ekaterina Perekrest, Solomon Darsaniya
Festivals
2023 Premiers Plans (Grand Jury Prize as Best European Student film)
2023 Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival
2023 Busan International Short Film Festival (Jury Prize)
2023 IndieLisboa
2023 Imedghassen Film Festival
Ten-year-old Gigi lives with his family in the back of a small Georgian cafe that they own and run in a Moscow suburb. Gigi’s life takes a drastic turn when his father is pressured into sheltering a stranger who turns out to be a criminal on the run.

Salome Kintsurashvili

Salome was born in 1990 in the city of Tskaltubo in Georgia. When she was 4 years old, her family immigrated to Russia. Salome got her first degree from Moscow State University, where she studied Public Relations. Her first involvement in film making was as a production designer. In 2019 enrolled in Moscow School of New Cinema, the workshop of Dmitry Mamuliya. "Runaway" — debut short film.