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. Vashagashvili first met Zhana and her four-year-old daughter, Elene, in 2012 while shooting a short TV documentary about life after orphanages in Georgia. Many of the young women she encountered were trapped in cycles of sex work and addiction. Zhana stood apart – homeless, raising her child on the streets and determined not to send her back into the system. Popular on Variety Her resilience and tenderness left a lasting impression.…