GE, NL

2009

76 min

Finished

Of Course to America!

Directing: Nino PurtskhvanidzePieter Jan Smit

Synopsis

In 2000, Ketevan decided to leave her hometown Tbilisi and depart for the West. Being refused a normal visa, she booked an airplane ticket from Georgia to Mexico and with the help of smugglers swam across the muddy waters of the Rio Grande and crawled through the sewers of El Paso, illegally entering the USA. At the other end of the tunnel border police were waiting for her. Ketevan was detained. Her lawyer Sister Marlene lost Ketevan's asylum case and even her American husband, John, could not legalize her stay in "the land of the free". Ketevan is an accomplished theatre director. She dramatizes and stages her story for her Georgian friends in a one-woman show. In the theatre she finds her freedom.
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