Tbilisi, Georgia. A man is dead. He leaves behind his teenage son Gonga and his uncle Bart (who used to be Gonga's aunt – played by a trans man – an absolute rarity both in Georgian reality and in Georgian cinema). The two drift through the suburbs while Bart tries to teach Gonga how to become a “real man” – with everything that goes with it: parking a car, smoking weed, drinking, and using a condom properly. Bart is a small-time con artist who is in debt and finds things at the junkyard to resell. On one of their aimless days, they come across a suitcase full of rusty crosses, and Bart has a brilliant idea: turn the crosses into neon crucifixes and sell them door-to-door to city dwellers. Business is good, the money is flowing – but then Bart goes to the casino.

Holy Electricity premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2024, where it won the Golden Leopard in the Cineasti del Presente section.

The film begins at a landfill site, a metaphor for the uncertain state of the two protagonists, and then accompanies them through the streets of the Georgian capital, where they seek redemption. For their journey—interrupted by tricky attempts to sell useless glow sticks to people whose apartments are already overflowing with objects—enables a slow, sensitive grieving process, like a delicate portrait of two masculinities that we still see too little of.- Lux Filmfest

Bold and uncompromising in its vision, and indicative of the birth of a very promising young filmmaker, "Holy Electricity" offers us unique insights through a touching and often bitingly funny dark comedy about the supposed corruption of family values and finding hope in even the bleakest of circumstances, filtering it all through a heartfelt story of a young man growing up to realize that he does not need to accept the life he has been given. - International Cinephile Society