Vajiko Chachkhiani

Winter which was not there’ can be seen as a metaphor for the liberation of an individual from his or her own history. In the film, a man watches a monumental concrete sculpture of a man being hoisted out of the sea. The sculpture is clearly reminiscent of a classic heroic monument but in a strange, and somewhat uncanny way, the face and figure of the sculpture look amazingly like the man who’s watching it rise out of the sea.

Chachkhiani's film is centered around a generational relationship between Giorgi, a perpetrator of domestic abuse, and his mother. The latter finds herself in a position of having to make a decision of either covering for Giorgi after he abuses his wife, or siding with the survivor of the attack.