Director: Darius Marder | 2019 | USA | 120 mins
Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles
Ruben, a touring drummer, begins to lose his hearing mid-tour. The film follows what happens when the thing that defines you disappears overnight. It does not frame deafness as something to fix. Instead, it places Ruben inside a community that asks him to accept a different way of living, and to sit with silence rather than fight it.
Riz Ahmed gives a performance that stays close to the body, built on rhythm, panic, and restraint. Paul Raci brings calm, patience, and a sense of lived experience that shifts the film’s direction. The sound design moves between clarity and disorientation, putting you inside Ruben’s changing perception of the world.
Winner of 2 Academy Awards including Best Sound. A film about control, dependence, and what it means to let go of the version of yourself you thought was fixed.
Location: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
How to find FOMO: Enter the Bazari via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left as soon as you enter next to the karaoke booth. FOMO is one flight up. Video instructions here: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17933106294029235
T&Cs: Guests must enter the Bazari by 23:00 to gain access to the FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar. If the Atoneli St entrance is locked you can get in via the side entrance on Sulkhanishvil St between 21:00 and 23:00. We close at 02:00 each evening. No refunds are issued unless we cancel the screening ourselves.
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia