Corn Island
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 2014 |
| Country | Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan |
| Director | Giorgi Ovashvili |
| Cast | İlyas Salman, Mariam Buturishvili |
| Genre | Drama |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Corn Island | – |
| Español | Corn Island | – |
| Français | La Terre éphémère | La Terre ephemere |
| Deutsch | Corn Island | – |
| Português | Corn Island | – |
| Italiano | Corn Island | – |
| Русский | Кукурузный остров | Kukuruznyy ostrov |
| 中文（简体） | 玉米岛 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 玉米島 | – |
| 한국어 | 콘 아일랜드 | Kon Aillaendeu |
| ไทย | Corn Island | – |
| Tiếng Việt | Đảo ngô | Dao ngo |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Corn Island | – |
| 日本語 | とうもろこしの島 | Toumorokoshi no Shima |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which human cultivation and natural impermanence collide within a borderland island shaped by river, war, and seasonal disappearance.
■ Synopsis
An old man and his granddaughter cultivate corn on a temporary river island while soldiers, borders, and nature surround their fragile livelihood.
■ RECIPE Tags
#ImpermanentLand #BorderExistence #HumanCultivation #NatureAndWar #SeasonalMortality
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Land as temporary gift
Reason: The island exists only through seasonal accident, making human labor depend on land that cannot be possessed.
Related Film: The Island - Middle: Border conflict entering ordinary survival
Reason: Political violence remains peripheral yet inescapable, disturbing a life built around cultivation and silence.
Related Film: Tangerines - Core: Human labor before natural erasure
Reason: The harvest becomes a confrontation with impermanence, where effort, shelter, and continuity are finally reclaimed by the river.
Related Film: The Tree of Wooden Clogs
■ Secondary Axes
- Silence as existential realism: Minimal speech shifts meaning into gesture, labor, landscape, and the body’s relation to place.
Related Film: The Turin Horse - Generational continuity under disappearance: The old man’s work attempts to pass life forward inside a world that refuses permanence.
Related Film: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
■ Person
- Director: Giorgi Ovashvili
- Cast: İlyas Salman, Mariam Buturishvili
■ Structural Tags
#TemporaryTerritory #BorderPressure #SeasonalCycle
■ Attribute Tags
#2014Film #GeorgianFilm #Drama
