Eka spends most of her time thinking about her son, Otar, who communicates with her via letters from Paris. When Marina learns that Otar has died, she enlists Ada to continue writing to Eka, as Otar, to save her mother the grief of losing her son.
The situation becomes complicated, though, when Eka says she intends to visit Otar in France. In Bloom. Early 90s, in Tbilisi, the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country is immersed in violence--there's a war on the Black Sea coast in Abkhazia, and vigilante justice plagues society. But for Eka and Natia, fourteen-year-old inseparable friends, life just unfolds in the street, at school, with friends or Eka's elder sister. Although they are already dealing with men's dominance, early marriage and disillusioned love, for these two girls in bloom, life just goes on.
Tbilisi, I Love You. The movie is a series of ten short films that are written and directed by natives of Tbilisi, Georgia and take on a personal narrative about the republic's capital city Tbilisi. Off the Map. Bo Valentina De Angelis is eleven years old and lives in a remote desert area of New Mexico with her mother Joan Allen , a free spirit who tends to the garden in the nude, and her father Sam Elliott , who is losing a battle with his inner demons.
One day they receive a visit from an IRS agent Jim True-Frost who is there to audit the family even though they make a very modest income. Realizing the simple yet profound way that Bo and her family are living, the IRS agent abandons his work to live with the family and surrender to the mystique of the desert landscape. Eventually he becomes the catalyst for major changes and discoveries by every member of the family. Off the Map is a story of self-discovery that reveals unexpected moments of grace and the unpredictable enduring nature of love.
Susan Hayward and Dean Martin throw a wrench into Wilfred Hyde-White's political machine in this Depression-era tale of corruption and power. Plucked out of obscurity by crooked party boss Sylvester Marin Hyde-White , good ol' country boy Bo Gillis Martin is elected governor based solely on smear tactics. Married to Ada Hayward , an ambitious call girl he met during the campaign, Bo soon discovers he's only a puppet with Marin pulling the stings. So when Ada convinces her husband to stand up and fight back, it leads to car bombings and blackmail as Marin battles the Gillis' for control of the state.
