Blueberry Dreams review – a gentle, humorous portrait of a Georgian family who start a fruit farm

Blueberry Dreams review – a gentle, humorous portrait of a Georgian family who start a fruit farm

War is always in the background, but the focus is on a kindly father, his long-suffering wife and young sons struggling to make a profit from working the land Georgian film-maker Elene Mikaberidze’s first feature-length work is a gentle, sweet-natured and deeply embedded documentary that observes a working-class family over a year and a half as they start a blueberry plantation. The opening text informs us that Soso, father of the family, was originally an engineer but has chosen to pack in h...

By Leslie Felperin