Grigol and his son Luka run a famous shop on the main boulevard of Tbilisi. Here they sell refreshing lemonades, while under pressure from the secret police, they develop essences in the laboratory behind the shop, that change the course of human history. A fairytale love story about the dream of the elixir of infinite happiness and the obstacles along the way.
The unbelievable story of the Soviet soft drink that Stalin wanted to beat the American Coke in the so-called “lemonade war”.
Light, without which life itself is impossible, is the working medium and obsession of director Thomas Riedelsheimer. In Tracing Light, science and art interact to illuminate the birth of stars and secrets of the molecular world. At a radical moment in physics, we bring together leading scientists, and artists who sculpt with light – from the Max Planck Institute, Erlangen, Glasgow University’s Extreme Light Group and from western reaches of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, in a quest to understand and embody the ineffable. New questions are given voice, visually and sensually, in the language of matter; in the language of film – light.
Putin had been preparing his country for the big war long before it started. A group of independent Russian journalists and activists face severe punishment and end up facing personal and political dilemmas in Askold Kurov’s couragous and critical film.
