Discoveries from Georgia World Cinema

While Temo, a 10-year old Georgian boy, is excited about receiving several chocolate Easter bunnies as a present from abroad, his father tries to use the moment to teach him a lesson.

This short hybrid documentary is a portrait of a 13-year-old girl in Gori, Georgia with a vivid imagination and love of storytelling.

This is the story of a guy named Will and his big fight. He finds himself in a difficult challenge from which it is hard to get out. He is trying to find his spark by the power of his ancestors. The video is done in trailer format and we are currently engaged in the development of Will's story.

When Ana left prison, the country she knew was gone. Georgia has changed, her friends and family have grown distant, but government's indifference and public contempt toward female drug addicts like herself remained. She finds her old friend Tamazi incapacitated by drug abuse and makes it her goal to help him get unemployment benefits.

A film about St. Gabriel (Urgebadze) of Georgia

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.

Fast and radical changes, brought by the collapse of Soviet Union in my city - Tbilisi, capital of Georgia and was followed by fire at my home. All my memories vanishing away lead me to alienation.

Short documentary about cellophane. How is it produced, and what is left after its production? This is a reflection about time and human life.

A Gentle Creature, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Henry is a 20 year-old American gay boy studying Georgian folk music. He will be a hostage, a victim, fiance, sweetheart and knight. A strange exotic tradition. Henry's humanity character saves a girl's life.

Irakli and Elena escape city life in a highland village. They want to restore a good relationship. Elena tries to create spiritual peace through yoga, while Irakli is addicted to alcohol, therefore they do not have a harmonious relationship, nevertheless they continue to live together.

Winter. A fifteen-year-old girl in a remote Georgian town tries to get closer to her older brother, just as he decides to leave home in search for work abroad.

Nowadays, Nino and Niko's closed world is disrupted and changed forever by the homeless Sopo. She points Nino to a new path - the path of hope.

he story describes the events of the civil war in 1992 in Tbilisi. Death is seen as something obvious, normal and an everyday occurrence. Death brings together very different people in abnormal circumstances and at the same time it pulls them apart to finally alienate them completely. The way these people behave, only underlines the great absurdity and tragedy of war.

A young woman decides to find her house that she has been deprived of at the age of 4 due to the war. The only chance to get to the occupied area is to cross the border secretly. The border barrier, the natural dividing line, the river Enguri, all add up to the artificially-created wire line by Russian Soldiers. In search of her house, the protagonist explores lives of internally displaced persons for 24 years after the war and sinks into the art of existence that seems to be war, rather than peace. In the process, she meets with so-called 'connectors', who help her get to the occupied territory. The story portrays everlasting estranging damage occupation can bring: how it can eradicate the concept of ' home' and the comforting feeling of safety.

At a glance, the main characters of the film are usual peasants: they hoe and dig the ground; they are busy with animal husbandry and grow crops. But the feature which makes them different from other villagers is their great love to theatre. In winter and summer, in snow and rain, every day they gather in a damaged building, have rehearsals and stage some new performances. The stage is the main driving force in their life, as long ago they’ve been poisoned with the dust of theatre.

The film is set in the recently Sovietized Georgia during the NEP period. 1925 year… in spite of a number of obstacles and barriers, the American businessman, Averell Harriman, obtains a concession from the Soviet government to extract and export Chiatura manganese over the period of 20 years.

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.

Bandura is growing up with his single mother in the Georgian region of Javakheti. The teenager earns extra money herding sheep, helping the local cheesemaker, and planting potatoes. Home at the kitchen table, his mother reads aloud from the Bible, but Bandura has other things on his mind: he wants to travel to the Moon. By selling sheep, he can make enough money to catch a boat to the United States, where he can start asking around about where to study to become a space traveller. Even though time appears to have come to a halt here, with a bit of fantasy – which our protagonist has plenty of – Javakheti by night really does look like the lunar landscape.

Batumi is the tourist center of Georgia. Every day large number of locals and tourists watch the ships entering or leaving the port. There is only one ship, "Enguri", with its crew of two that never leaves the port. The three of them are refugees from Abkhazia. Lado is the captain and Vakho is the boatswain. They never leave their almost broken ship, anchored in Batumi port.

This film explores the sensations and associative memories of childhood. It delves into how a simple object—its touch or its scent—can transport someone back to their childhood, recalling a specific day that might seem ordinary yet is charged with intense emotion. The narrative captures the essence of care, fear, love, warmth, aggression, stress, and the subtle forms of violence that a child might not understand at the time, or might understand but be unable to articulate.

A lonely stinkbug is crawling on a bookshelf, desperately looking for a man of her dreams.

Amidst ongoing protests and rising social unrest, two very different individuals - a young activist girl and RoboCop, the law enforcer - unexpectedly meet in a bar.

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.

Nana Mgaloblishvili is a Kartvelian (Georgian) language teacher at a parish school in western Sakartvelo. On April 9, 1989, during the bloody suppression of a peaceful demonstration for Sacartvelo's independence by the Soviet Russian army, she narrowly escaped death but was severely poisoned. Nana's lessons bring the past into the present, where literature and history meet the realities of today. In her classroom, knowledge becomes both a lesson and a prophecy, guiding her students as they prepare for their national exams.

A girl is unable to say her name

An odd man on a balcony

The main thread of this video art piece is the banal idea of the inevitability and necessity of death in the healing process, with all responsibility and dedication to transformation, which nevertheless marks a lethal outcome for all previous vital processes. In this farewell, as in any death, there is a lot of grief and pain, behind which a new beginning, a new existence opens.

the movie is about 14 years old boy who was victim of Mikheil Saakashvili's regime.

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.

'Erased by Putin' shows the Federal Security Service (FSB) stalking a long-time activist and organizer of St. Petersburg Pride; the arrest and dismissal of a lesbian architect in Moscow; the escape of a drag artist detained in one of the many raids ordered by the Kremlin; and the loneliness and anguish of a young agender person who began their transition in secret 20 months ago in Putin's Russia, despite it being prohibited.

a young man goes to a suburb to meet his girlfriend, The date turns out to be unplanned, which turns out to be devastating for him.

Surami, 04.08.1996. On a historic day for Georgian football, Ketino Nozadze says goodbye to the big game with a match between The Chinchilas (under 60 kg) and The Rumbas (over 100 kg).

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.

The kettle is boiling, the protagonist in uniform is trying to escape from the crisis caused by the monotony of everyday life

In a few brief moments in the life of a young girl, we see her drawing on the window with a marker as she sings and chats, and walking along the main road on her way to meet her friend, meanwhile surrounded by cars and trucks racing dangerously close to her.

A mystical thriller drama with an intense storyline

Documentary about a martial arts camp on the shores of Lake Bazaleti.

A short impro made within Caucasus cinema togather with a bunch of lovely people.

The young man is cleaning an oil lamp.

During the war between Abkhazia and Georgia in the early nineties, 87-year-old Toro fled to Georgia with his cousin and his cousin's wife. Since then they have been living together in a remote village. Despite Toro's endless positivity, humour and resilience, the harsh reality starts kicking in. Until the quiet comes is a story about dependency and the strength to carry on in times where everything seems to fall apart, told with a touch of tragedy, humour and vodka.

What do children do when the whole world is in isolation due to the coronavirus and they have to spend all their time at home? Do they go to online classes? Do they call friends? Improvise on the piano? Sunbath on the balcony? Do they easily adapt to their isolation? This film follows the lives of two small dreamers, stuck in isolation in Tbilisi during the spring of 2020, the spring of the coronavirus.

In front of a little kid, unrolls a story of two groups of people, whose conflict revolves around Georgian society's cultural and political challenges which lead them into a mystical, and tragic, journey. Coming from elements of the society such as fairy tales, religion and pop-culture the film is filled with unforeseeable twists and shifts in the story, aesthetics, and genres.

Documentary about daily life of a Men's Monastery in Abkhazia

Beka is 26 years old... His father taught him his profession. Beka makes art photography and a film about a physicist and composer. He had his first photo exhibition recently. Father's patience and understanding helped him to introduce his son to adult life and make him believe in his own talent.

The new prison in Rustavi city, Georgia, is considered to be the best prison in the entire ex-Soviet space. And yet, even the best prison cannot replace the natural yearning for freedom - a gift that every person is born with...

Grandmother always replies to Luka's curious guestions, one answer forces the child to catch birds, which will help him to see his mother. All days the boy spends on the roof with a trap, trying to catch a huge number of birds. grandmother react calmly to his desire, she only remarks that birds have mothers and they miss them too. later a group of older boys takes away his trap and only after that realizes the little boy these words. the conflict with the boys finishes after Luka's attempt to get his birds back. this incident changes a lot of thing for the little dreamer, he doesn't want to achieve his aim by using other creatures and releases the birds.