{"id":17963,"date":"2025-09-08T15:11:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfest-frauenwelten.de\/?p=17963"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:02:36","slug":"9-month-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfest-frauenwelten.de\/en\/2025\/09\/08\/9-month-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"9-MONTH CONTRACT"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Ketevan Vashagashvili, Bulgaria \/ Germany \/ Georgia, 2025, 80 min., documentary, Georgian with English subtitles<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Zhana has freed herself from homelessness. However, despite having two jobs, she still lives in poverty with her teenage daughter Elene in Tbilisi. In order to give her daughter, whom she loves more than anything, a better life, she also offers her services as a surrogate mother. In doing so, she is left defenseless against the risks of the unregulated Georgian market: shady agencies that exploit women and cheat them out of their money, as well as unreliable prospective parents who threaten or abandon them. Added to this is the social stigma that defames her as a \u201cchild seller\u201d and strains her close relationship with Elene. How openly can she talk to her daughter about her \u201cside job,\u201d and how will Elene deal with it\u2014including the consequences that repeated surrogacy has for Zhana’s health and their life together?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Ketevan Vashagashvili is a documentary filmmaker based in Tbilisi. She is a Chevening Alumni with an MA in Digital Documentary from the University of Sussex (UK). Her main interest lies in social and human rights issues. Ketevan has 15 years of experience in working at various Georgian TV channels and online platforms, directing and producing TV documentaries, TV-series and programmes. Ketevan works at the Georgian Public Broadcaster and has completed her first feature-length documentary film, 9-Month Contract, produced by the Georgian company 1991 Productions.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Tickets: Mon, Nov. 3, 7:15 p.m.<\/a>
In the presence of: Gonca de Haas (director of TORN – AUS DER MITTE GERISSEN)<\/a>
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9-MONTH CONTRACT celebrated its world premiere at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, where the film also won the HUMAN:RIGHTS AWARD. The film celebrated its German premiere in the \u201cCrossing Boundaries\u201d competition series at DOK.fest Munich. In Berlin, the film was shown for the first time at the International Documentary and Media Festival Berlin (Doxumentale).<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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In Tbilisi, Zhana becomes a surrogate to give her teenage daughter Elene a better life \u2013 only to face shady agencies, unreliable clients, and a lawless system that pushes her body and health to the 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