Georgian Documentary ‘9-Month Contract’ Follows a Surrogate Mother’s Harrowing Ordeal

By Anna Marie de la Fuente

Anna Marie de la Fuente

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For Georgia’s Ketevan Vashagashvili, whose debut feature documentary “9-Month Contract” recently won the Alternativa Film Festival’s Spotlight Award, making it has impacted her life profoundly. “I think we grew together and changed each other’s lives,” she says of Zhana, the main subject of her docu.

“For me, ‘9-Month Contract’ is a story of a mother’s sacrifice, driven by a central question: How far will a mother go out of unconditional love for her child,” she says.

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