Irakli's Lantern

Directed by Ben Page · 2020

In Europe's highest settlement, a 78-year-old man stays on as the last year-round resident, reflecting on his homeland's future as a winter storm closes in.

An intimate, atmospheric portrait of loyalty and loneliness at the edge of the world.

High in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia, 78 year old Irakli Khvedaguridze lives alone as the last year-round inhabitant of Europe’s highest settlement. As a winter storm rattles the windows and walls of his small house

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