The Pipeline Next Door

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  • Nino Kirtadze
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    Paris-based Georgian filmmaker Nino Kirtadze introduces this award-winning documentary.

David faces Goliath when a village of Georgian farmers takes on the BP oil corporation in this evenhanded, character-driven documentary. Kirtadze’s verité approach captures the negotiations, breakdowns, heartbreak, and anger surrounding BP’s purchase of Georgian countryside to construct a 1,700-kilometer pipeline from Kazakhstan to the Black Sea. The villagers try for solidarity but find envy and mistrust as their way of life is crudely upended, and the BP spokespeople are caught in the unending march toward a supposedly ever-brighter future . . . A wrenching exposé of the exploitation of the common people

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
FILM DETAILS 
Cinematographer
  • Jacek Petrycki
Language
  • Georgian
  • Russian
  • English
Print Info
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