IMAGO

Déni Oumar Pitsaev
France, Belgium / Documentary / 109’ / 2025

  • "The ambition of 'Imago', and its unique place in the contemporary film landscape, deserves recognition."

    IndieWire

  • "This peek into a region and a rarely seen piece of recent history will surely find admirers on the festival circuit."

  • "A strong festival entry."

    Cineuropa

  • "A surprisingly lyrical documentary that even has traces of Chekhov."

Festival publicity

Cannes Film Festival 2025
World Premiere Critics’ Week
Golden Eye – The Documentary Prize
French Touch Prize of the Jury

When Déni inherits a small patch of land in the wild, beautiful valley of Pankissi, he sees a chance to finally build the house in the trees that he's dreamed of since he was a boy. But nothing in the rugged Caucasus is ever simple. Returning to a village just across the Chechen border where he was born - a place he barely knows - Déni stirs up old feuds, buried family dramas, and above all, the question everyone keeps asking: when, and with whom, is he finally going to get married?

Director Déni Oumar Pitsaev
Production Triptyque Films, Need Productions
International Sales Rediance Films

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