When Déni inherits a small patch of land in the wild, beautiful valley of Pankissi, he sees a chance to finally build the house in the trees that he's dreamed of since he was a boy. But nothing in the rugged Caucasus is ever simple. Returning to a village just across the Chechen border where he was born - a place he barely knows - Déni stirs up old feuds, buried family dramas, and above all, the question everyone keeps asking: when, and whom is he finally going to get married to?

Cast & Crew
Producers: Alexandra Mélot, Anne-Laure Guégan, Géraldine Sprimont
Director: Déni Oumar Pitsaev
Script: Déni Oumar Pitsaev, Mathilde Trichet
Directors of Photography: Sylvain Verdet, Joachim Philippe
Sound : Hélène Clerc-Denizot, Emmanuel De Boissieu
Editing: Laurent Sénéchal, Dounia Sichov
Cast: Déni Oumar Pitsaev, Daoud Margoshvili, Temo Tcintcalashvili, Malika Tcintcalashvili, Irakli Tsiskarishvili…
Production. Triptyque Films

Awards
Golden Eye, French Touch Prize - Critics' Week Jury, Cannes IFF, 2025

Déni Oumar Pitsaev
Déni Oumar Pitsaev was born in Chechnya in 1986 and grew up between Grozny, St Petersburg and Almaty. He studied at Sciences Po in Paris before turning to cinema. He later obtained a bachelor's degree in film directing at the INSAS (National Institute of Performing Arts) in Brussels, followed by a master's degree in audiovisual arts at the LUCA School of Arts, St. Lukas Campus. Déni is an alumnus of the Locarno Filmmakers Academy and the IDFAcademy. His debut feature documentary, Imago, had its world  premiere in competition at La Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. He is currently developing the script for his first feature film, Maaspalomas. Based between Paris and Brussels.

Filmography
The Girl Who Plays a Game (short, docu-fiction, 2016), Looking for Déni (doc., 2017), Imago (doc., 2025)․