Souvenir

In a mountain Abkhaz village, 11-year-old Nar is pulled into a clash between ancestral traditions and outside pressures, when a powerful local figure threatens the sacred boxwood grove that anchors the community’s life.

Cast

Nurbey Kamkiya

as Gudisa

Beslan Avidzba

as Nar

Valeriy Shakaya

as Matuta

Irma Kutaladze

as Saida

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