Discoveries from Georgia World Cinema

A love story about a boy's spiritual world. He is forbidden to be a believer and ridiculed for his religion. The situation takes place in the communist era, when Christianity was persecuted.

Foreign Root follows a bus filled with migrants as they navigate the challenges of displacement and the uncertainty of their future. Ivan Dorn, who co-wrote and soundtracked the film, also stars as the bus driver. He leads the journey across state lines, while contending with border controls, as the passengers find solace and strength in music, shared stories, and each other. The film juxtaposes surrealist elements with a visceral portrayal of the loneliness and fear of being stateless.

The life of Jorje, tour guide from Brazil, changes dramatically as he travels to Svaneti, small, beautiful and very exotic region in Caucasian mountains of country of Georgia to learn about the sense of humor and jokes specific to this place. But he discovers the humor here can become even wilder then the Caucasian mountains.

“The Well” is a new short film by Eldar Shengelaia, which the director directed based on the story by Rezo Cheishvili. This is the writer and director’s third creative work. Before that, there were “Blue Mountains, or an Unbelievable Story” and “Samanishvili’s Stepmother.”

In Georgia, in the middle of a desert, on the hottest day of summer two water-melon sellers cross paths.

Christine, a village girl, raped by Jason Uqmadze, a local aristocrat, decides to take her own life but the villagers spot her body in the river and manage to save her. After the suicide fiasco, Christine befriends Sona, her alleged well-wisher in hope to start her life anew. Instead of helping her, as promised, Sona takes Christine to the brothel.

Masha and Ilya were born around the time Vladimir Putin came to power. The girl and the boy, just like their friends, wanted to live in a free, democratic and open country. Fighting for freedom and their future, our heroes organise discussion clubs and protest actions, participate in pickets and give lectures, support their comrades who are behind bars, try to change the minds of their relatives, friends and ordinary passers-by in various Russian cities. "Moscow, come out!" shouts Masha at a rally. But Moscow does not come out, it is busy and in a hurry. The centuries-old machine of unfreedom sweeps the boys away. War breaks out. And we all find ourselves in another reality.

The film is a collection of short stories that explore the most basic human instincts: eating and sex. Each story is based on a true story and offers a unique perspective on modern Georgian life. The stories capture the complexities of Georgian families and couples in love with a deep, yet warm, humour that is both uncompromising and relatable.

This film evolves around a mother and a son and their day on May 17, 2013. The story starts in the morning when a woman discovers her son wearing her red dress. The film is dedicated to the theme of homophobia and is closely related to May 17, 2013, the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.

A lonely man is silently longing for a companion, when a crack appears in his floor...

A recluse living in the Channel Islands develops an obsession with the ward of wealthy steam engine enterpreneur Mess Lethierry, his niece Deruchette, in the 1820s.

In a darkened classroom, the white cracked walls serve as a movie screen. We are in a remote mountain village in Georgia. The light from the projector breaks the darkness: the children's first cinematic experience is about to begin. Among the kids are Iman and Eva, two Muslim girls, for whom the experience becomes a turning point and inspires them to pick up a camera and start filming their daily lives. The girls are growing up in a valley infested by radicalism, where most people live in constant fear that their relatives will sacrifice their lives in the name of God.

The film follows three boys as they play and interact, revealing a familiar dynamic: teasing, bullying, and testing each other’s limits. We see them overcome their fears.

Young couple is going hiking to be alone by themselves. In the first evening the girl confesses that she’s pregnant. This information appears to be very sudden for the boy. The next morning the girl vanishes without a trace.

Achieving early success, wealth, and respect is positive, but it has downsides. Giorgi, a symbol of success, neglects his wife Nini, mistreats his assistant, and undervalues others, even closing the first Georgian children’s theatre in Sighnaghi for a Russian restaurant. What will happen when Giorgi experiences life from the perspectives of those he has wronged? How will he feel as a driver, an assistant, the assistant’s wife, or a theatre director? Is it beneficial to be a dog you’re trying to catch on your own orders?

The events of the film take place during the First World War in 1917 on the Caucasian front. First cornet of the military orchestra Streshnev, not interested in politics faithfully serves his stern commander Colonel Garaburde.

37-year-old Irina, a doctor who returns home after serving a long sentence in prison. In order to start a new life and return to the society, Irina has to earn the trust of the people close to her. But does she need a place in such a society?

Malkhaz is very fond of cycling through the streets of the city - it is always connected with the unexpected.

The position of village headman is inherited, but one day a stranger of unknown origin takes over the reins of the village and dominates the people.

The life story of a young man in modern Georgia, covering the “stagnant years”, prison, criminal activity after release, suicide.

Farmer Ivan Dunaev gets up early. He feeds his piglets, does paperwork, fixes the tractor, and weighs the meat he'll take in his old pickup truck to the market to sell. He has a wife, a teenage daughter, and a young son. And he loves to hunt. His world revolves around these things. Then, one day, two new workers, Lyuba and Raya, on work release from the local prison colony, arrive on the farm. Ivan doesn't notice it at first, but something begins to change.

Mockumentary by TV/YouTube show “კაცები”

Man dies, but his family members can't notice this.

The existence of a person in an eternal circle – from birth to death. What is the main thing? Why or for what do we exist? What prevails in society – love, support, forgiveness, and mercy, or hatred, betrayal, the instinct of revenge and destruction?

Two little brothers (8 and 14 years old) have to stay alone in their remote hut, to protect it from an obscure threat, while also dealing with their own fears and fantasy.

Rene Dadiani, a big city dweller, teaches video art in a film school, while at the same time working for a propane delivery office. He claims real men are men of many hats. In film school, he's one of the avid preachers of self-initiated absurd theory. He assumes that one can enhance the power of imagination by way of altering consciousness that, on its turn, can give way to new reality. Rene often observes life via his Handycam. Sometimes those he captures are not only the 'real' people, but imaginary personalities, too.

The film tells about the summer adventure of brother and sister, Ano and Vano. At the beginning, it becomes clear that the book of fairy tales of the peoples of the world of all times brought to the State Museum of Georgia has disappeared. After this event, pictures and writings disappear from all fairy-tale books and a portrait of a one-eyed evil character appears. It is at this time that Ano and Vano, who went to the village for a vacation, begin their fabulous journey into a fantastic world, which will be guided by Ochopintre

This is the story of the Tbilisi-Batumi train, which, due to a switchman's mistake, first enters the line of occupation of the Georgian region of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, then the train enters the city of Chiatura.

A cable car operator launches a personal battle against the entire city of Chiature, Georgia, after her husband is killed in an mining accident.

The story follows a family in socially tangled Tbilisi throughout 24 hours. Tamuna, a busy woman about to leave for London and spend a few days with her lover tries to solve all the family issues before her departure.

Marlen, talented young professor receives the letter from his university friend from the Far North. He invites him to work in wonderful city-polis, North Athens, as he calls it, which is the place only for distinguished people. It is difficult for Marlen to leave the country. In this case he has to leave his ill mother, because this possibility is not envisaged by the terms given in the letter.

A young filmmaker named Dato has no money to make a movie, so he hangs out drinking and brooding all day in the capital of the former Soviet republic, Georgia. He is also writing a screenplay. Excerpts from his script, shot in black-and-white, are cut into his story. All the stories, including the framing story about Dato and his friends, are interwoven so that they become one long narrative about contemporary life in Georgia.

A small country road in 40°C heat. A groom on his way to his wedding is stranded by a car breakdown. He then encounters a mobster having a heart attack and recovers a suitcase stuffed with cash. Trouble with the underworld and misunderstandings with the traffic police are not long in coming...

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Two women, one a Stalin devotee and the other a vehement anti-Stalinist, are separated by generations but united by the shared loss of their fathers to war. They grapple with the contested legacy of their village of Gori, the Georgian birthplace of Joseph Stalin, in this duel over historical legacy, memory and hagiography.

“When the Sea Was Calm” is a silent, hand-crafted Georgian short animation that transforms the memory of Sokhumi before the war into a poetic story of childhood, first love, exile, and the dream of return.

An Armenian–Azerbaijani–Georgian feature film about love, friendship, identity, and politics in the South Caucasus.

The film tells the story of the difficult fate of the intelligentsia opposing ideological despotism.

The plot revolves around the residential complex "Venice", which cannot be completed for seven years. Twenty would-be owners gather in one of the apartments to start negotiations with a potential investor who wants to build a restaurant on the first floor of the building, but this space is already owned by the priest. Some of the tenants must donate their own area, so as not to anger God.

The last days of the fall of Sukhumi. People in a state of war. Political confrontations of the 1990s. Stories in which the instinct for survival is accompanied by the desire to preserve one's humanity

On 25th December 2011 the Georgian Patriarch Ilia II described his 34 year-long leadership as head of the Georgian Orthodox Church as a ‘sunny night’. Beginning in 1989, and going up to the present, the film essay Sunny Night tells of political and social events since Georgian Independence. A variety of formats and sources, disparate images and voices report on protests, recommencements, uproars and wars, and religious identity that centres around the dominant religion of the nation. In the midst of the ongoing shifts and the various state of affairs, the patriarch stands out as the only constant figure. Meanwhile the sermonised religion begins to take on radical forms, going as far as priests forming front row human-chains, leading protests of several thousand orthodox believers chasing a handful of LGBT activist throughout the streets of Tbilisi in May 2013.

A businesswoman makes a deal with her partner. If she manages to make any man fall in love with her and marry her within five days, she will keep her business. Otherwise, she will have to hand over her wealth to her business partner.

A child with a bleeding nose, sitting at the window in a bus and his young father whose nose is bleeding too. The young father tries to wipe the blood from the child’s nose, but because his own nose is bleeding too, It keeps on dripping on his shirt, and whenever he tries to wipe his own blood away, the same happens to the little boy – not about this is the Film. In the Film can be seen a Boy, a Girl, a Dog, a Boat and a River – and all this through a prism of tears in different geometric shapes.

The house painter Misha lives with sense of guilt because of the death of the son. Police officers ruthlessly destroy Misha for the fact that allegedly he stores things stolen by his son. The meeting with Niko Pirosmani's drawing of "Train in Kakheti" for Misha becomes an opportunity that he will come back the past and to confess for the made mistakes concerning his son.

The story centers around the Georgian family while waiting for their terminally ill mother to pass away

Vazha, also known as Pkhinko, is a kind hearted person. He cannot remain indifferent when a man is beaten, but if he deserves it, he can punish himself and go to prison for it.

Beso is 14 years old kid from remote village of Georgia, he is growing up in a family of disabled father, mother who is family bread maker, a homosexual brother who gives private dance lessons to make money. Beso and his friend Beka spend their time like most kids. Beso writes rap and records himself on a tape recorder, he sees his rapping as a way out from his harsh life.

A desperate mother searches for her son in the labyrinths of virtual reality risking everything to get him back.

The boxes piled against the wall on one of the streets of Tbilisi fell down and disrupted traffic

In Georgia, two stranded Nigerians, Obinna and Afame, navigate the sleeping city of Tbilisi after a long night out. However, as day breaks the true colors of their ambiguous affection begin to show. In this way, they find solace despite their hostile environment.

The film depicts episodes from Galaktion Tabidze's dramatic, contradictory life.

A man whose parents were killed and whose estate was confiscated during Soviet times returns to his ancestral village to build a school for disabled children.

With the end of the world fast approaching, an aging magician realizes one last feat of magic is required of him.

George is from a rich family, he is handsome, carefree, tries on various situations and situations. He walks a lot, communicates with people, but life is boring. One day George sees a blind man. Blind Heraclius is wise and calm. He doesn't need anyone. He is pleased with real Georgian wine, he loves classical music and old books. The dignity of Irakli wins: George takes a wand from Irakli and puts on dark glasses...

The first Anglo-Georgian co-production. Documentary-drama that tries to re-trace the footsteps of Marjory and Oliver Wardrop, who went to Georgia at the end of the 19th century, fell in love with the country, and set about learning its people and culture. Earliest known film role of Ralph Fiennes.

Village, like a human being, is born out of love. Village, like a human being, is ruined, if left without love.

A spoof on many popular American comedies, centered around cross-dressing.

The film follows 40-year-old Nana, who takes a $100,000 loan to open a sex shop. She agrees to an affair with the credit department head for the loan and a job for her son. Her husband, Zaza, disapproves and hires detective Tamuna.

Giorgi is 16 years old when he discovers another world through American films forbidden in all Soviet Union until then. Since the post-revolutionary chaos in his home town, Tbilisi, Giorgi has wanted to have succeeded by following the path of his idols: Tony Montana and Vito Corleone. He has almost reached his goal when he is confronted with a dilemma; how can he stop his little brother who is 12 years old to follow his path when he could become a famous pianist? All this in a world that only knows chaos.