NAMME
- Feature
- 2017
- 91 Minutes
- Georgia, Lithuania
Ali’s family has inherited a mission – taking care of a local healing water and curing sick fellow villagers with it. Three sons are skeptical and only the young daughter Namme stays as the guardian of family traditions.
Director: Zaza Khalvashi
Screenwriter: Zaza Khalvashi
Production Company: Georgian National Film Centre
Film Critic
Gaurdian’s outburstfamily tradition

MIna Akbari
Namme is a female narrative without issuing a manifesto from solitary and isolation in a patriarchal world in a Georgian village. The screenplay is based on national legends and stories which shows us a mystic experience of slow cinema. Ali’s family has inherited a mission – taking care of a local healing water and curing sick fellow villagers with it. Three sons are skeptical and only the young daughter Namme stays as the guardian of family traditions. In parallel, a hydro power station is being constructed locally and environmental changes are at stakes. One day the spring water starts to disappear and the only fish in the spring becomes sick. Her aging father remembers the old tradition: the water will not return unless sacrifice is made. Namme isn’t allowed to have love affairs, because she loses her power so does the spring water. However, she falls in love and her power gradually fades away, and she slowly becomes unable to cure people. She faces the dilemma to choose between a private life or sacrifice for family traditions to help people. She finally decides to let the fish go.
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Awards
2017: Tokyo International Film Festival, Best Film, Nominee, Japan2017: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Grand Prize, Nominee, Estonia
2019: Palm Springs International Film Festival, Best Foreign Language Film, Nominee, USA
2019: American Society of Cinematographers, Winner, USA
Cast and Crew
Screenwriter: Zaza Khalvashi
DOP / Camera: Giorgi Shvelidze
Editor: Levan Kukhashvili
Sound: Vano Gvaradze, Jonas Maksvytis
Production Designer: Akaki Jashi
Producer: Sulkhan Turmanidze, Ieva Norviliene
Cast: Aleko Abashidze, Mariska Diasamidze
Director

Zaza Khalvashi
Zaza Khalvashi was born on May 17, 1957 in Batumi, Georgian SSR, USSR. He is a director and writer, known for Solomon (2015), Namme (2017) and Mizerere (1996).