INSTRUCTIONS FOR SURVIVAL

The film is about love story of one couple Alexandre and Marie. Alexandre is a transgender and lives with his girlfriend Marie. Because of his trans identity and mark “female” in passport, Alexander has to lead a secret life. Such people like him are threatened with persecution and death in his homeland.

In order to escape this hopeless situation, Marie decides to make a surrogacy. With this money, the couple wants to flee to Europe and finally live in freedom.

With the time their pragmatical plan wrecks, because Alexandre and Marie fell in love with the child in Marie’s belly.

photos © Yana Ugrekhelidze
  • Genre
    Society, Drama, LGBTQ, Politics
  • CATEGORY
    Documentary
  • YEAR OF PRODUCTION
    2021
  • DIRECTOR
    Yana Ugrekhelidze
  • SCREENPLAY
    Yana Ugrekhelidze
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Jule Katinka Cramer
  • PRODUCER
    Yana Ugrekhelidze
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    Fortisfemfilm
  • RUNTIME
    72 min
  • LANGUAGE
    Georgian, Russian, English, German
  • SALES
    Fortisfemfilm, Yana Ugrekhelidze
    ugrekhelidze@gmail.com
    www.fortisfemfilm.com