City of the Sun (dir. Rati Oneli, Georgia/USA/Qatar/Netherlands) - Official US Trailer

Chiatura is a city in Western Georgia. There was a time when it was responsible for supplying 50% of the world’s manganese; at its peak, the mine employed up to 10,000 workers. Today, with drastically reduced manganese production, dangerous working conditions and little prospect for any improvement, it is well on its way to becoming a ghost town. The city was founded by Georgian poets and aristocrats in the 19th century but was turned into a center of industry by the Soviet regime. For the Soviets, it was the embodiment of a bright, utopian future. American billionaire Averell Harriman made huge investments and lived there; theaters, universities, concert halls, stadiums and parks were built, along with the first and largest public aerial cable-car transportation system in the world. Chiatura was a human and technological experiment on a grand scale that ultimately failed. Today, the lives, dreams and destinies of extraordinary characters unfold amidst the ruins of the semi-abandoned mining