A Tunnel

The stationmaster in Zvare, a remote valley town in Georgia, is bracing himself for change. Soon the high-speed trains of the New Silk Road will race through the old train station built in 1890, during the period of Tsar Nicholas II. The Chinese-led construction project is blasting through the mountains to construct the world’s third-longest tunnel, and this brings the opposition of the local residents, who do not want their land to be spoiled. Nino Orjonikidze and Vano Arsenishvili’s documentary presents the transformation and follows the rural Georgians as underdogs in this massive intrusion of capitalism on the villagers and their landscape.