Rati Oneli was born born in Tbilisi, Georgia. He has lived in New York from 1999 to 2014 when he returned to Georgia in order make his documentary City of the Sun. He specialized in Middle East Studies, as well as International affairs both at Free University Tbilisi and Columbia University in New York. He currently pursues PhD in Philosophy at the European Graduate School. In 2014, he produced and co-edited Invisible Spaces, a short film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2016 his next production Lethe, premiered at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes. City of the Sun is Oneli’s first feature-length documentary.
Imagined as a city of the future during the Soviet era, the once-celebrated manganese-mining town of Chiatura in Georgia is now all but abandoned, crumbling around those who still inhabit it. And yet, as anywhere, people live their lives and go about their daily business. There is joy here, and there are the usual challenges. Rati Oneli’s _City of the Sun_ takes us on a languorous tour of this ...
Imagined as a city of the future during the Soviet era, the once-celebrated manganese-mining town of Chiatura in Georgia is now all but abandoned, crumbling around those who still inhabit it. And yet, as anywhere, people live their lives and go about their daily business. There is joy here, and there are the usual challenges. Rati Oneli’s _City of the Sun_ takes us on a languorous tour of this ...