Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 2014, Georgia, /France/UK/Germany, 105 minutes,

Cast: Misha Gomiashvili, Dachi Orvelashvili

Festivals: Venice Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Warsaw International Film Festival

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Plot: In an imaginary village in the Caucasus, a President is on the run with his five-year-old grandson following a coup d’état. The two travel across the lands that the President once governed. Now, disguised as a street musician to avoid being recognized, the former dictator comes into contact with his people, and gets to know them from a different point of view.

The President and his family rule their land with an iron fist, enjoying lives of luxury and leisure at the expense of their population’s misery. When a coup d’état overthrows his brutal rule and the rest of his family flees the country by plane, The President is suddenly left to care for his young grandson and forced to escape. Now the country’s most wanted fugitive with a bounty on his head, The President begins a perilous journey with the boy, criss-crossing the country to reach the sea where a ship waits to bring them to safety. Posing as street musicians and traveling together with the people who suffered for years under the dictatorship, the fallen President and the innocent child will be exposed first hand to the hardships that inspired unanimous hatred for the regime.

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Sources: http://www.iranianfilmfestival.org/all-date-list/the-president/ , Youtube