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In the hands of a young filmmaker, a Handycam primarily used for homemade family movies transforms into a tool for self-reflection. Compilations of personal archives and images from the subconscious prompt us to embark on a journey of re-examining gender-identity formation in a conservative, post-Soviet Republic of Georgia.
The film tells the story of a large family in a village, which is locked in one space due to snow, but despite being in the same building, they do not have close contact with each other. The main character is Nika, disabled persons. He is excluded from siblings and only has a relationship with the father.
Three places in which men meet, share a moment, filling the emptiness of Tbilissi's daily life. At the baths, at the barber's or in an empty house haunted by three swallows, speech flows in enclosed spaces. The director observes and captures the intimacy of the words, the obviousness of the gestures and the unexpectedness of the events. A metaphor for liberty, the absolute dream of contemporary Georgia.
A once popular bass player in Tbilisi is now jobless, joyless and crammed into a shoebox-sized one-room apartment with his elderly mother.
The source of this film is the personal life of my father, Nugzari, and his right hand. The hand that has been playing a crucial role in his economic and social life and has always been a guarantee of the financial stability of his family. The film traces a physical and a symbolic transition of his right hand: how the transition has been affecting his socio-economic life in his journey throughout different political ideologies that are represented and governed by symbolic hands.
Winter which was not there’ can be seen as a metaphor for the liberation of an individual from his or her own history. In the film, a man watches a monumental concrete sculpture of a man being hoisted out of the sea. The sculpture is clearly reminiscent of a classic heroic monument but in a strange, and somewhat uncanny way, the face and figure of the sculpture look amazingly like the man who’s watching it rise out of the sea.
Mariam is a 22 years old actress, she works in a cafe, where customers can order any companion they wish. Any can have a dinner with a best friend, a cup of tea with a grandfather, or coffee with a lover. One day she meets Levan in the cafe, a nature defender, who tries to change her point of view about the cafe she's working in.
Thirteen-year-old Mariam lives with her father, Rezo, in the poor slums of Tbilisi. They share a one room shack. Mariam and Rezo are barely making a living, being forced to steal at times. Along with the struggle against poverty, Mariam also has to deal with the facts of becoming a woman and the fear that her father would betray her in order to make money.
A documentary film "Angels of Sorrow", dedicated to the 80th Jubilee of a contemporary Georgian classic composer - Giya Kancheli is filmed during the concert tour in several cities of the world (Berlin, Brussels, Antwerp, Baku, Tbilisi). He is an artist, for whom the most important thing in all time was freedom. During Soviet period, he was accused of introducing morphine with his music and that he rejoiced enemies in capitalist countries with it. Giya Kancheli with his friends replied to all these from theater stage, where they reflected the whole absurdity of the Soviet Union. The war is still going on - Art can't change anything.
A crafty fox uses tricks, creating trouble and unexpected lessons.
Kind-hearted girl overcomes hardships, teaching compassion, patience, and forgiveness.
Greedy character seeks more, ultimately suffering consequences of selfishness.
Cat and parrot share adventures, friendship, and playful conflicts.
A playful bear cub constantly causes trouble for the animals around him. After several mistakes, he learns responsibility and how to behave kindly toward others.
A Hermit monk living in full harmony with divine forces, spreading light among the people below...
A brother and sister, reunited in Tbilisi after years apart, have only one week to rediscover their home in a foreign land before parting ways again.
A grandson visiting his grandfather is trying to protect his pet which may be killed along with other dogs in the village. When unwanted guests come to the grandpa and grandson, the dog solves the problem on his own.
A quiet look into Georgian Monastic life, that follows a young monk as he navigates faith. In March of 2015, Father Anubi left the Sarkineti Monastery in Dzama valley to begin a new chapter in his life. In October 2015, after spending 6 months at a small village church, he returned to the Monastery and Archbishop Job. Moving between different monasteries, the film captures the harsh yet serene landscapes that shape this existence.
A quiet look into Georgian Monastic life, that follows a young monk as he navigates faith. In March of 2015, Father Anubi left the Sarkineti Monastery in Dzama valley to begin a new chapter in his life. In October 2015, after spending 6 months at a small village church, he returned to the Monastery and Archbishop Job. Moving between different monasteries, the film captures the harsh yet serene landscapes that shape this existence.
Working with the Georgian polyphonic ensemble Rustavi and composer Anzor Erkomaishvili to resurrect the countryside’s derelict monasteries, Chkhaidze films eroded structures and faded biblical paintings caressed by sunlight, evoking the ambivalence of a besieged culture despite Georgia’s extant link to antiquity. Building on themes from his earlier work, Kolkhida—where Chkhaidze assigns the famed national myth of Jason’s quest to find the Golden Fleece in Colchis a negligible value in proportion to the land’s permanence—Chkhaidze here examines and historicizes Georgia’s identity as one of the earliest adopters of Christianity.
The film is about a beggar boy, who lives in non-functioning trolleybus. His regular begging place is opposite the laptop shop. Every day he stands there watching his beloved red laptop. His life changes when "he's" notebook is bought by a young boy, as a present for his wife.
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Life in 1990s Georgia was wild. After the country’s first president was overthrown by a military-backed gang, a familiar face began rising to power. Facing betrayal, political intrigue, and even attempts on his life, Eduard Shevardnadze had to play his cards carefully to stay in control and hold on to the presidency.
In this speculative video essay, the filmmaker connects his medical history with the shifts in post-Cold War geopolitics and their impact on contemporary politics.
strange but movie name is "Without the Title"
As always, we breed the plague. "Another man with a sword, don't try to be stronger than my Death" is a video art I shot especially for our album "Minotaur - Ananke" and is a kaleidoscope of my and Zura's body performances.
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A girl is unable to say her name
The material of this Ukrainian fairy tale tells about the mythological image of the blind old lyre player and his relationship with the underworld. This is a stable symbol and an exclusively original phenomenon in Ukrainian culture, which has a common terminological designation "kobzar". The kobzars were documented in Ukraine for the first time in the 15th century.
the movie is about 14 years old boy who was victim of Mikheil Saakashvili's regime.
A young woman leaves Georgia for Italy, searching for the life her home wouldn’t allow her to live.
A film about bees and their homes and about those who keep rebuilding, even after everything is taken from them.
A man, a mop, and a longing for connection.
A man dies, and no one knows where to bury him.
"By the way, there's a Ukrainian family living in Kormagali," my friend Geo told me, which sparked my desire to make a film about them. But searching for this family raised more questions than answers. The main one was: Where is the Ukrainians house?
Summer in rural Georgia: while baking apple pie, the director's grandmother begins to tell stories and talk – about life in the Soviet Union as a young woman, or her view of today's Russia. It's almost like sitting at the table with Ludmila in person and being invited to listen along.
In anticipation of the bus, young friends got worn out, and one of them travels to an imaginary world with the help of music.
An attempt to capture reality without destroying it, and to find personal meaning in someone else's experience. One continuous shot - the author walks towards the sunset along the mountainside, shooting from the first person with a handheld camera. Behind the scenes, the story is told by a collage of many voices in a stream of thoughts: they are recorded during their travels, emphasized by the author's music.
Every Saturday morning, locals of a remote village in Georgia's mountainous region of Racha take a bus to the weekly bazaar in the nearest larger town to sell their goods and make purchases. The observational documentary short film follows the villagers on their journey to the market and gives a very atmospheric feeling for the hardship of this long summer day.
A film about the life of a teacher
This film is made up of the voices of people scattered all over the world. Someone left their home a long time ago, someone immediately after February 24th in 2022, and someone stayed in Russia. On the first eve of the anniversary of the war in 2023, at the author’s request, the participants sent a video of what life looks like around them. They decided for themselves what was important for them to talk about now: about the war or about life. They decided what to show and how. This is a kaleidoscope of different events of one day, during which everyone is trying to understand how life has changed and what it has become now. The goal of the film was to give the voices of the participants the opportunity to be heard without evaluation or condemnation.
A film about those who left and those who stayed. We meet six protagonists, all from Perm, who opposed the war against Ukraine. Half of them have moved abroad, while the other half remain in Russia. Those who left are learning to live anew, discovering a new world of freedom. Those who stayed are adapting to a new reality of denial and collective silence. Yet, each of them continues to resist Putin's dictatorship in their own way.
An unknown woman arrives in Georgia. A gorge, a river, impressive mountains and cloudy landscapes receives her. She finds a strange house inhabited by other people in the same situation as herself. Russian filmmaker Vladimir Grishechkin, in majestic black and white, with silences and spaces that outweigh words, depicts a tale between the real and the allegorical about those who have decided to exile themselves and face its consequences.
A short film about the struggles of two brothers in modern Georgian society
The film tells about the night adventure of the hosts of the “Katsebis show" in Tbilisi.
Bakur Kvezereli is 27 years old. He leads the Georgian ministry of agriculture and is the youngest minister in the government of Saakashvili. He says that there is nothing he dislikes about himself. Filmed in 2008, right after the Georgia-Russia war, the film is a short insight into the government of Georgia.
A Doctor has to make the ultimate choice between his own family and lives of others.
The Great Patriotic War. Two scouts, Georgian Vano and Kazakh Bakhytzhan, returning from a mission, fall under an air raid. Bakhytzhan saves Vano at the cost of his life. At the bedside of a dying comrade, Vano swears that their children will become related. However, Vano could not fulfill his promise, and now the grandchildren will have to fulfill the oath of their grandfathers. The grandchildren of Vano Buba and Nino leave Tbilisi for Almaty, unaware of the incredible adventures that await them in Kazakhstan.
Years after being cast out for being gay by his traditional Mexican father, Paul dying of AIDS returns home to spend his last remaining moments with his family.
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