Winner of five Israeli Academy Awards (Ophirs), including Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Cinematography

Nandauri is a tense, award-winning debut feature film from Israeli director Eti Tsicko that explores cultural divides and identity through a personal journey. The film introduces Marina, an Israeli lawyer of Georgian descent, who returns to a remote, deeply conservative village in the snowy mountains of Georgia. Her mission is to retrieve her client's 12-year-old son, whom the mother abandoned as a baby 11 years prior.

Marina confronts the boy's uncle, Dato, who has been raising the child and harbors significant anger over his sister's actions. As the two strangers navigate the logistics of the retrieval, their journey forces Marina to confront her own suppressed childhood traumas and the complex relationship with her heritage.

Nandauri has garnered significant critical acclaim, winning five Ophir Awards (Israel's equivalent of the Oscars), including Best Director and Best Actress for Neta Riskin, and Best Debut Feature at the Jerusalem Film Festival. It is described as a poetic and intense drama that bristles with sexual tension while subtly exploring the dissonance of navigating dual cultural identities.

Eti Tsicko

 Born in 1982, to immigrant parents from Georgia.  A graduate of The Steve Tisch School of Film & Television at Tel Aviv University. Her short films “Daswarilli” (Stained), “Audition”, “Dog- Leash” (Cannes Film Festival) and “Ruso” were screened in festivals in Israel and all over the world.