Three Steps

film type fiction Production Country Germany, Georgia production year 2017 runtime 19'00 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Georgisch Subtitles Englisch, Deutsch
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Georgisch Subtitles Englisch, Deutsch

Mariam lives with her father Rezo in the slums of Tbilisi. They share a one room shack and are barely making a living. Along with the struggle against poverty, Mariam also has to deal with becoming a woman and the fear that her father would betray her in order to make money.

director Ioseb Bliadze Besetzung / Cast George Ambroladze, Rusudan Dokhnadze Bildgestaltung / DOP Dimitri Dekanosidze Produktion / Production Tekle Machavariani Drehbuch / Script Giga Liklikadze, Ioseb Bliadze Tongestaltung / Sound Design Vano Gvaradze
Festivals
2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
2017 Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
2017 Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine (Special Mention, Audience Award)
2017 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
2017 Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
2017 FECIBogotá - International Independent Film Fair of Bogotá, Colombia
2017 FEST International Film Festival, Espinho, Portugal
2017 Burgas International Film Fest, Bulgaria
2017 OPEN PLACE International Short Film Festival, Rēzekne, Latvia (Best Script)
2017 Cherkasy Short Film Festival "KinoShot", Ukraine
2017 Batumi International Art-House Film Festival, Georgia (Special Mention)
2017 Jinzhen International Short Film Festival, Hancheng, China
2017 Kaohsiung Film Festival, Taiwan
2017 KFFK - Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany
2017 interfilm Berlin: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Germany (Lobende Erwähnung)
2017 exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany (Bester Film)
2017 Tbilisi International Film Festival, Georgia
2017 Zubroffka International Short Film Festival, Bialystok, Poland
2017 Kyrgyzstan – Land of Short Films, Bishkek (Best Directing)
Production
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Distribution
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Sales
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Ioseb Bliadze

Born 1968 in Tbilisi, Georgia;
studied directing at the Shota Rustaveli Georgian State University;
after his diploma with THE MOST PRECIOUS in 2012, he made other short films successfully shown at international festivals

Filmography
2017 Three Steps
2018 Neighbors
2020 Otar’s Death