9-Month Contract
Ketevan Vashagashvili / Georgia, Germany, Bulgaria / 2025 / 77 min
Trying to offer her daughter a better future, a woman from Georgia becomes a surrogate mother, but finds herself trapped in a vicious cycle and realizes that her decisions can have dramatic consequences.
About the film
Zhana grew up in an orphanage and had a difficult life, but now she has become a mother and wants to give her daughter a better life. To earn money, she becomes a surrogate mother, but after five consecutive births, she begins to feel the consequences, both physically and mentally. At the same time, with each pregnancy, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep the secret from her daughter, who, in the meantime, is growing up and starting to understand her mother’s sacrifices.
ProducerNino Chichua, Anna Khazaradze
SoundNika Paniashvili
CinematographyGiviko Tukhareli, Ketevan Vashagashvili
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