13 Nov

16:30

Pathé City

Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 15-19, Amsterdam

A poetic and intimate documentary portrait of Adelina, a young Georgian trans woman, and her years-long struggle for freedom after being locked up by her parents for eleven years.

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Why this film is of interest to the LGBTQ+ community

This film offers a painfully honest, moving, and intimate portrait of Adelina, a young trans woman from a Georgian village. It documents her years-long struggle for freedom and self-determination after being held captive in her parents' home for eleven years, and her subsequent journey as a refugee in a new society. It's a powerful story of resilience, identity, and the complex, loving bond between a mother and her trans daughter.

Synopsis

A cry for help reaches filmmaker Rati Tsiteladze one day in 2017. It comes from Adelina, a young trans woman who has been locked up in her parents' home in a Georgian village for the past eleven years.

In Austria, which Adelina chooses as a place of refuge, she is left to fend for herself in an indifferent and sometimes hostile new society. The only person she keeps in contact with in Georgia is her mother, who also wants to escape—from her resentful, aggressive husband and from the suffocating social conventions that govern her life.

Tsiteladze captures Adelina’s years-long struggle in poetic, impressionistic scenes, sometimes as majestic and evocative as composer Marius Leftărache’s music. This creates a painfully honest, moving, visceral, and intimate portrait. We see a daughter who wants to spread her wings but repeatedly encounters a cruel reality, a mother who draws strength from her daughter’s perseverance, and the complex and loving relationship between the two.

Film Details

Director: Rati Tsiteladze
Country of Production: Georgia
Year: 2026
Length: 75 min
Spoken Languages: Georgian, German, English

Tickets

Part of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Tickets are €13.50 (regular) or €8.00 (students/CJP). Purchase via the official festival website.