Holy Electricity

This is a good vibes only in this film set in Tbilisi, Georgia. Grippingly energetic, humorous, visually rich and moving to the beat of electronic music, it tenderly observes a slice of life in this vibrant city. We move through Tbilisi with teenage boys on the bring of adulthood, Conga, and Bart, his cousin who has recently become Conga’s guardian. 

The two of them roam flea markets and junkyards in search for scraps to upscale and upsell. A business idea is born from a bunch of rustry crosses pimped with neon and sold door-to-door to gullible city dwellers. Like the city itself, our protagonists are opportunistic, poor and haphazard – but above all, gentle and kind-hearted.

Director Tato Kotetishvili is part of the Georgian new wave alongside filmmakers like Levan Akin (And Then We Danced, Crossing) and Dea Kulumbegashvili (April), who join the neorealist tradition in filmmaking and turn their gaze especially to gender and sexual minorities in Georgia.

Holy Electricity is filmed on location with amateur actors, preserving a slice of authentic and vibrant Tbilisian rhytm and aesthetic.

Saara Tuusa