The Trader is a 2018 short documentary film following a traveling trader living in poverty in the rural life of the Republic of Georgia. It won the Best Short Documentary Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in 2017,[1] and the Sundance Film Festival Short Film Jury Award.[2][3][4]

The Trader
Usama Khan
Directed byTamta Gabrichidze
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • February 9, 2018 (2018-02-09)
Running time
23 minutes
CountryGeorgia
LanguageGeorgian

The documentary was released on Netflix on February 9, 2018.

References

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  1. ^ 2017 Awards Archived 2021-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, hotdocs.ca
  2. ^ "Georgian film The Trader wins Sundance Film Festival". Georgian Journal. July 8, 2019.
  3. ^ "The Trader (Sovdagari)". Doc Weekly. July 8, 2019.
  4. ^ "'The Trader' is a harrowing look at a town without hope". The Daily Dot. July 8, 2019.
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