Discoveries from Georgia World Cinema

მსუნაგები (Gourmands) is a Georgian TV show about the daily life of hamsters by Supremo - სუპრემო

The film offers a look into the psychology of Georgian youth in the 1980s. Featuring the era’s teenagers, representatives of the so-called “skateboard generation”. The documentary captures candid conversations about drug use, politics, material realities, and other pressing social issues of their time.

The shoemaker mixes up the client's shoe bags and rushes to the real owner - the girl he falls in love with

Chemo dao (Sister of Mine) is an attempt to bring together the diverse and sometimes contradictory layers of Tbilisi. From suburban bazaars to the underground queer scene, the merging of the pieces gives it life. “Why do you need those things?” the old lady asks from the back of her tiny-messy shop, “It’s for the theater,” the short answer comes from the drag queen, who is just a simple guy in the daytime bazaar.

Financial pyramids have been a consistent feature in Georgia’s recent history. State banks, private lenders and construction companies have all taken money from people with the promise of future profit. But in most cases, the money has simply disappeared. The film shows the latest cycle of financial naivety–as well as society’s desperate attempts to earn money fast, even if very strange methods were needed. The film was shot in Javakheti, a southern region of Georgia on the border with Armenia and Turkey that is mostly populated by ethnic Armenians.

In Kutaisi, revived with footage of the 90s, the characteristic mood for Georgia's transition period is seen everywhere: family conversations, festive parties, artistic protests, public events, TV shows, and the city streets. These little stories reflect the confusion caused by the new reality, fear of an uncertain future, material hardship, and the anxious everyday life of the city. These scenes seem to answer the questions arising in the process of adjusting to the new way of life. All issues, which seemed particularly complex at that time, are now becoming simple and clear from today's perspective.

About the opening of the first opera house in Tbilisi.

Animation short.

When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, it became clear to anyone that the aggressor was conducting a hybrid war against Ukraine. It conquered Crimea with a combination of disinformation, propaganda, and secret military support for rebel groups and covert military operations. The only surprise is that many people were surprised when Russia deployed this military strategy, because it has a long history of doing so.

During its 2012 election campaign titled “Smiling Georgia,” the governing party promised its country’s poorest residents new teeth in exchange for their vote. Dentists began to pull people’s decayed teeth, but after the election defeat, the trusting public never received their new pearly whites…

An essay film comprised of layers and hybrid cartographies: I aim to question, although abstractly, the masculinisation of gender, especially in the context of being an immigrant in Europe.

Anna Dziapshipa was born of the union between an Abkhazian man and a Georgian woman. In Self-Portrait Along the Borderline, she skilfully weaves together unique archives and fragments to offer a personal and political biography of Georgia-Abkhazia relations. This vibrant exploration foregrounds a divided identity caught between the margins.

A young "Crook", card player-swindler, follows the trains, deceives the passengers and steals money. When exposed to fraud he is often beaten. On the train he meets pioneers and their attractive leader who thinks he is a priest because of his outfit. while eating and drinking the offerings from the pioneers, he begins to talk incredible nonsense, referring to Christ as being a bird and gradually enters his character as a priest. Suddenly "priest" sees a small mystical river from the window, decides to bring the children and their leader from the train and baptises them in this river which he calls "The Jordan". The newly baptised pioneers and their leader will then jump on the already departing train and happily head for their compartment, while the "priest" is apprehended by his previous victims, that were searching for him.

Lado lives with his mother in a small town in Georgia. The same things are repeated every day in their lives, there is no difference between today and yesterday, until Lado decides to make a change.

Four friends find themselves trapped in an empty Batumi, with no one around and no way to leave. They must find out what happened to the city and its inhabitants while trying to find a way back home.

The Greeks used to call the Black Sea ‘Ponto Euxino’ — hospitable sea. That is the feeling one gets with this summery journey through the Black Sea through the drawings and insights narrated by dozens of children and crafted to form a small epic poem of recognition and adventure.

It is a film about a journey of five Lithuanians in Georgia, through Tusheti National Park. The journey brings together five complete strangers, the hardships they have to endure, and the beauty of Georgia: forested mountains that never get tired of being looked at, majestic valleys and roaring mountain rivers.

Distinctive Avant Garde Comedy that combines three very interesting, mysterious and adventurous novels. Film undermines, subversing, questioning and challenging generally recognised norms, mainstreams, moral standards of today's reality. Grandmaster wins his life. What happens when the devil decides to do good deeds for others ‘during its career’? Two celebrities surprisingly look like Statham. This striking resemblance leaves one of the celebrities quite tired out.

One of the versions of the famous and beloved musical "Chkhikvta Vrguli" from Iveria, a musical film shot in Sighnaghi in 2009. Based on the fairy tale by Vazha Pshavela. Director - Giorgi Ebralidze Composer - Aleksandre Basilaia Libretto authors - Jemal Bagashvili, Bajuli Gelovani.

The plot of the film is based on the biographical facts of Duru Khurtsilava, a famous criminal of the 60s of the 20th century, with amazing physical strength.

An immigrant couple living abroad faces tough times. Their relationship and plans are put to the test when their dog has an accident and needs costly surgery. With light humor, the film explores the challenges of immigration and quirks of the human condition through the relationship of the main characters.

Chemo dao (Sister of Mine) is an attempt to bring together the diverse and sometimes contradictory layers of Tbilisi. From suburban bazaars to the underground queer scene, the merging of the pieces gives it life. “Why do you need those things?” the old lady asks from the back of her tiny-messy shop, “It’s for the theater,” the short answer comes from the drag queen, who is just a simple guy in the daytime bazaar.

In Kutaisi, revived with footage of the 90s, the characteristic mood for Georgia's transition period is seen everywhere: family conversations, festive parties, artistic protests, public events, TV shows, and the city streets. These little stories reflect the confusion caused by the new reality, fear of an uncertain future, material hardship, and the anxious everyday life of the city. These scenes seem to answer the questions arising in the process of adjusting to the new way of life. All issues, which seemed particularly complex at that time, are now becoming simple and clear from today's perspective.

When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, it became clear to anyone that the aggressor was conducting a hybrid war against Ukraine. It conquered Crimea with a combination of disinformation, propaganda, and secret military support for rebel groups and covert military operations. The only surprise is that many people were surprised when Russia deployed this military strategy, because it has a long history of doing so.

An essay film comprised of layers and hybrid cartographies: I aim to question, although abstractly, the masculinisation of gender, especially in the context of being an immigrant in Europe.

A young "Crook", card player-swindler, follows the trains, deceives the passengers and steals money. When exposed to fraud he is often beaten. On the train he meets pioneers and their attractive leader who thinks he is a priest because of his outfit. while eating and drinking the offerings from the pioneers, he begins to talk incredible nonsense, referring to Christ as being a bird and gradually enters his character as a priest. Suddenly "priest" sees a small mystical river from the window, decides to bring the children and their leader from the train and baptises them in this river which he calls "The Jordan". The newly baptised pioneers and their leader will then jump on the already departing train and happily head for their compartment, while the "priest" is apprehended by his previous victims, that were searching for him.

Erekles life turns upside down, after his brother returns from emigration

It is a film about a journey of five Lithuanians in Georgia, through Tusheti National Park. The journey brings together five complete strangers, the hardships they have to endure, and the beauty of Georgia: forested mountains that never get tired of being looked at, majestic valleys and roaring mountain rivers.

Distinctive Avant Garde Comedy that combines three very interesting, mysterious and adventurous novels. Film undermines, subversing, questioning and challenging generally recognised norms, mainstreams, moral standards of today's reality. Grandmaster wins his life. What happens when the devil decides to do good deeds for others ‘during its career’? Two celebrities surprisingly look like Statham. This striking resemblance leaves one of the celebrities quite tired out.

Guri and his mother, Sanata, have been living in a mountainous village of Georgia, with a dog – Tuia. The visual observational journey vividly shows motherhood’s bond, image of everlasting, pure, endearing union. Meanwhile, living in harmony, what happens if a third person intrudes in their tacit relationship. The young lady’s rapid appearance arouses questions – to what direction their life will turn, what will be transformed, lost, or gained.

Postoto-the epitaph of Oto Katamadze from Batumi, who made his school friends listen to 30 years of out-of-fashion Led Zeppelin, put together a band that a few years later turned out to be one of the brightest and most influential blues bands in Georgia — and died in a car accident. Assembled from the monologues of close friends and colleagues of the musician, the film evokes an almost physical sense of loss, lack: in the place of the main character in this story, an uncomfortable, not yet prolonged void yawns. The snow-covered Black Sea coast in the finale is not the most obvious (and yet readable) visual image of rock and roll: from the winter Yalta in "Ass" and the final scene of "Needle" to the classic cover of "Russian Field of Experiments", white snow in the post-Soviet latitudes has always been considered a suitable background for the slogan Live fast, die young.

I, the daughter of a Georgian tiger mother, travel around classrooms and observe children to help portray my childhood. I juxtapose these images with my mother's letters, reflecting her attempt to transform me from a restive child into a model citizen.

A once popular bass player in Tbilisi is now jobless, joyless and crammed into a shoebox-sized one-room apartment with his elderly mother.

Nugzari has settled down with his family in the ruins of Mutso, his childhood village in the deserted mountains of the Caucasus. Nourished by the epic legends created around this territory, Nugzari tries to pass on to his son his intimate relation to the stones and the past of this sacred hinterland of Georgia.

Film tells about the person's way to freedom. About liberation from violence, war and destruction of the surrounding world.

Entire film takes place on stairs. In a flat someone feels very bad and for that reason ambulance is called. The situation is becoming worse and worse. A neighbor is browsing the stuation to understand what is happening.

Ariana Lolaeva's debut stand-up special is frank, smart and very funny. In her first full-length concert, Ariana talks about the lives of women, jokes about her magical abilities and talks about how... they wanted to kill her!

22-year-old Anna is fighting for her right to register her family’s property in her name. Her cousin strongly opposed her decision. In the Svaneti mountain village of Ushguli, tradition dictates that if a family does not have a boy, the land and the family house are handed down to the next male relation who will continue the family name.

On Akhmeteli St. #4 in Tbilisi, Georgia, there stands a decrepit apartment house the director of this documentary once grew up in. After 10 years spent abroad, he returns to capture the daily life of his neighbors on camera. the author quietly observes their private stories and examines how they are able to find happiness despite economical hardship and how they preserve their personalities and humor in spite of disillusion. Artistically, the film is based on the house as a microcosm metaphorical of today‘s Georgian society.

The action takes place in one of the Armenian villages in Abkhazia. For a local boy, life is not very difficult: he loves his mother, loves his uncle, goes to work at a local coal packing warehouse, but one day an event happens.

A beautiful young princess marries a man she believes to be poor and ordinary. Later, she discovers that he is actually a prince in disguise.

Two mice set out on an adventure together. Through their experiences, they learn that friendship, cooperation, and helping one another are more important than selfishness.

A naughty little goat never listens to its mother and often gets into trouble. After facing danger, the goat learns the importance of obeying and respecting its parents.

A dusty carpet stored in a garage lies at the heart of a love story - and a family tragedy. The film focuses on the director's own family, who have also been communicating with cameras from the moment she was born.

A businessman returns to his homeland to team up with a school teacher in order to sell a precious stone.

A short animated film about King Vakhtang I Gorgasali and the legend of the founding of Tbilisi — how the discovery of sulfuric hot springs during a royal hunt became the foundation for the future city.

Ignis Fatuus

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A young musician, Misho, has a heartfelt conversation with his mother about why his father left eight years ago. Fueled by a desire for answers and closure, he decides to embark on a journey to locate his estranged father. Along the way, Misho discovers hidden truths about his family, confronts old wounds, and learns valuable lessons about love, forgiveness, and the complexities of human relationships.