Felicità

(Happiness)
by Salomé Aleksi
30’, Georgia, 2009

Tamara lives and works, without a residence permit, in Italy, where she is employed by an elderly woman. Her job allows her to maintain her children who live with their father in a small Georgian village, from which she departed a few years earlier. Her husband dies suddenly, in a car accident. His funeral is organized in their village, but because she is an illegal immigrant, Tamara cannot leave Italy. And so, she finds another way to participate in her husband’s funeral.

Salomé Aleksi
Born in Tbilisi in 1966, she studied design and painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts. From 1988 to 1992 she was the art director and costume designer at the film studio, Georgian Film. In 1996 she earned a directing diploma from the Paris Film School. From 1998 to 2000 she was a reporter at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.