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The main character of the film is a participant of The Abkhazian War, who, instead of protecting the integrity of Georgia, made profit from the war, then took refuge in Russia and returned to Tbilisi after three years...
Film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov
After a casino mishap leaves them in a desperate financial bind, three friends hatch a scheme to recover their losses in a single weekend. Their plan spirals into comedic chaos as unexpected situations and a parallel trio of strangers turn the city into a battleground of mistaken identities and absurd competition.
Greatness paired with modesty: 93 years old and a daughter, world-famous director Lana remembers her mother Nutsa, Georgia’s first female filmmaker. A cinema legacy that revolves around being human in dark times: feminist, loving, critical of violence.
Ramin, an ex-wrestler who once won seven matches in 55 seconds, lives alone in the east Georgian town of Kvareli. Long ago he fell in love with a girl with whom he was estranged soon after he met her. Now, at 75, still unmarried but full of life, he travels to a remote village to seek her out. This film presents Ramin's journey through the Georgian landscape and through the memories of this man with a old aged body and an unbeatable heart.
A young man leaves his village to go into the city to audition to enter a dance company. He then is involved in illegal activities such as boxing and sleeping with men for money. Unwillingly, he falls in love with a man and suddenly is accepted in and starts dancing in the company. But his life will turn upside down when his lover goes to war and he returns to his village.
The head of the security service is faced with a choice: to continue serving the state or to give up everything in order to save his sick son.
The change in Giorgi’s life could not be more radical. The city, art, his regular, middle-class existence and his marriage to Ana are all behind him. Now he is alone. Giorgi goes into isolation on a small barren island in a simple hut by the sea. In an inhospitable environment, surrounded only by a handful of strangers, between chicken farming and duck hunting, he is trying to pick up the pieces of his life. But his wounds are deep, and the shadows of his happy past repeatedly catch up with him.
The hidden and taboo turbulence of PMS. Part Of Trilogy ,,EXOLVUNTUR"
The story of a Soviet military serviceman and a male Georgian dancer. An anti-violence film about the awakening of human instinct in an invader
Baku, Azerbaijan. A famous photographer postpones his wedding once again due to an important job offer. During the inevitable quarrel with his fiancée, they have a car accident.
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A young pianist who ignores the outside world at his home meets an unexpected guest who offers him a the deal of a lifetime.
A custody battle goes awry for mother Lile when her son is sent to live with her mother-in-law, Nina. Time passes and Lile eventually hears that her son, Luka, has been killed in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict. It's now 1993 and the war is drawing to an end. Lile travels back to the village where Luka was raised to collect his body for burial.
If your romantic dreams don't come true on New Year's Day, don't worry, as Valentine's Day is just around the corner. You will easily believe this is possible if you watch the romance between Sandro and Nini unfolding in one of the nightclubs of modern-day Tbilisi.
GURIA is an astute dramedy about everyday life in a village in western Georgia. This poignant, yet humorous slice of life, brims with charming, loveable characters – fighting against all odds to live a proud and joyful life. Guria champions ingenuity, kindness, and the eternal search for love despite a raging civil war. Though set after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it is a timely reminder of how shared humanity and compassion are the truest measure of our capacity.
The emergence of a musical prodigy in Georgia
The film Broken Ties, by independent Russian filmmaker Andrei Loshak, is an unflinching portrayal of families divided by war. It features seven different pairings, whose members speak periodically with Loshak, one-to-one, to explain their points of view. Their conversations extend over the war's first three months, during which time their opinions evidence no change. The film makes no attempt at dialogue -- on the contrary, it is a testimony to the absence of dialogue amidst an unfolding war, and an unsentimental diagnosis of the sickness of a society in which official propaganda proves stronger than even the most intimate family ties.
April is released from prison after having been busted as an illegal sex worker. In the basement of a luxury hotel in Tbilisi where she works, she meets Dije, a young man who has left his native country Nigeria behind. Believing he is on his way to Georgia in the United States, he finds himself in a country that offers him no future. April herself is hiding and coming to terms with a lost love that is better not spoken of in Georgian society. Between longing and survival, in the searing heat of the capital, an extraordinary relationship develops between these two people who live on the margins of society.
The story of Moldovan migrant worker Damian, navigating the postmodern world in foreign country, within the walls of a German warehouse, where an artificial mind named “Lydia” guides his every move.
60-year-old illusionists Oleg and Spiderman Dato travel to distant villages and perform for schoolchildren. The main character, Oleg, wants to pass on his knowledge and experience to the new generation. That's why he decides to find and train an apprentice. Oleg's wife, Anaida, doesn't like this idea. She thinks it's pointless.
The coziness of the family is disturbed when the neighbor's workers accidentally tear down their common wall. Beso and Anna are working hard to rebuild the wall as soon as possible. However, things get complicated when Anna's younger brother, Ika, disappears under mysterious circumstances.
Reflection on the relationship between the world and humanity. A journey in the 20th century, in a specific time and specific space.
A dog and a human share sleep in the twilight of a calm house. Suddenly, the shapes of reality start to blur, and slowly, dream and fantasy take over. In his latest work, Andro Eradze shapes a new vision of surrealism, where impeccable image composition and a stunning sound work strike directly at the subconscious, submerging the senses in an ocean of absolute beauty.
Depressed writer with a troubled marriage escapes the city for his childhood countryside to meditate on his future and reflect on his past. He gets involved with a young woman…
A couple returns home every night with one eye on the wall, watching for their every move and smiling.
A young student heads back to his village during the COVID-19 lockdown to collect ethnographic material for his thesis, but as quarantine stretches on, the rituals and everyday scenes he records start bringing back childhood memories-leading him to piece the footage together into something more personal.
Giorgi, a Georgian unemployed actor and tragic looser is suddenly confronted with the arrival of his 15-year old daughter Tina whom he hasn't seen for 10 years. Together with his black lover-to-rent room mate Ngudu and the wooden-legged soap opera actress Mia he desperately tries to show Tina a fake life of a rich man who's got everything, including a big car and a villa. But things go wrong and his daughter isn't that stupid. So soon she starts enjoying the pure chaos around her until all secrets are revealed.
In the dead of night, a strange woman arrives in a forgotten village in northern Georgia. Marina, an Israeli lawyer who has spent her life in denial about her past and identity, returns to Georgia to bring back to Israel an 11-year-old boy who was abandoned by his mother Nino as a baby. She meets Dato (Nino's brother) who has cared for the boy his entire life. Despite the hostility she arouses in him, he agrees to help her. The journey of Dato and Marina, two strangers, melts the walls of alienation and anger and changes their perspective on the world and themselves.
An old scientist left alone in the gated territory of an astrophysical observatory, located high in the South Caucasian mountains, fights against apocalypse to preserve the knowledge of previous generations, for the sake of his own granddaughter who is the only other survivor of great pollution caused by an unknown meteor. An old man and his granddaughter are the only survivors for their knowledge, living alone on an non-polluted island of the Georgian Mountains. At a great risk to his health the grandfather travels to polluted areas to gather supplies and pass all the knowledge on, necessary for the child's survival.
As the only road leading to the Caucasus mountain region of Tusheti, Georgia, closes for 7 months of winter, a handful of holdouts remain. Experiencing time outside the flow of state regulation and consumer exchange, this smattering of people form a tight, interdependent group — navigating intergenerational friction, the remnants of the Soviet Union, and uncertainty over their community’s future.
A weekend in Gudauri turns into a strange and unforgettable journey for four friends.
When young Gonga and his cousin Bart find a suitcase full of rusty crosses in a scrap yard, Bart gets the idea to turn them into neon crucifixes and sell them door-to-door to the gullible inhabitants of Tbilisi. Their crusade through the suburbs of the city becomes a quest for love and friendship.
Kaleidoscopic omnibus film with 11 documentaries about Georgian political prisoners: from animation and archive work to letters from the heroes and podcast with their friends.
Two unemployed people lose control and start earning money through some frauds.
Duolan left Yakutia for Georgia. He turned his apartment into a small kitchen to make a living selling sushi. In Batumi, where little reminds him of home, Duolan searches for something that might bring back the feeling of his homeland - in the local landscapes, people, signs, and even animals. Sometimes, he sings Yakut songs, hoping to at least mentally transport himself back to the place he left behind.
On their way to a seaside holiday, an American family detours to a crumbling Stalin-era estate deep in rural Georgia, where time unravels, history repeats, and a woman begins to lose herself in a house that remembers everything.
The tale about a man, who is going to kill his best friend because his wife has had an affair with him. A chance encounter with a fellow traveler allows the protagonist to see his own personal drama in a different light.
A letter to our friend behind the bars. All are waiting for "the Camel's" freedom. A journey of group of people 'in Bax' and their stories. it's a humorous collection of thoughts exposing unjustified incarceration..
The poor wretch Abesalom is in love with beautiful Lisa. But her family has other plans. They want her to tie the knot with Ilja, the director of a bra-factory. Abesaloms only chance to come up her families expectation and to be with Lisa is to become rich. Luck is with the lovers and Abesalom wins the lottery. In order to receive his fortune he has to travel to the city. On the way he loses his hat and with it the sewn in lottery ticket. The wind carries both to an enchanted wolf's ravine. Losing his chance to ever be with Lisa, Abesalom also seems to lose senses. While Lisa is forced by her family to marry Ilja, Abesalom goes through an amazing metamorphosis...
Man who was a Guardian of The National Treasure of his homeland Sakartvelo (Georgia) in France placed in 39 big boxes, did not lose any item and brought it back in 1945 after 24 years of struggle and became a national hero.
On the main square of a mining town stands a cross depicting a saint, regarded by the local miners as their protector. One day, the cross is taken down for repair and the statue of the saint suddenly vanishes. When a mysterious stranger subsequently appears among them, the residents put two and two together…
A domineering and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to a young man, for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda
1945. Four thieves, a stolen ox, a dragon lying under a sofa, a jealous brother and a Soviet inspector murdered in a mill: here are some of the mysterious elements of which the characters in Lantsky Papa's stolen ox try to make sense.
After she discovers canisters of undeveloped film shot by her late father, Elene sets out on a journey to collaborate with him on a special project. Between the earth and the land of the dead, a darkroom becomes the only dimension where the paths of a father and a daughter can cross.
The sad love story between singer Keti and student Nika.
The parable tells the story of a prince who embarks on a journey across the land in search of happiness, but is unable to find a caring person anywhere.
After 14 years in prison, the time has come for Gogita to return to his normal life. His wishes seem modest enough: a home of his own and then marriage to a nice woman. But who would be interested in a poor farmer and ex-con who still lives with his mother? Then he meets Maka on the internet. She's not that young anymore, and she's not the prettiest girl in the world, but she can bake delicious cakes. They're soon making grand plans without even having met.
The characters begin new chapters of their lives: Nodar and Nunuka’s engagement, Tikuna getting a breast implant to please her in-laws, and a year-long celebration of Saba’s loss and rediscovery.
The village of Gorelovka is located in Southern Georgia. It was founded in the mid 19th century by Doukhobors (“spirit-wrestlers”), members a group of Russian religious dissidents banished from Russia by Tsar Nicholas I for their anarchist and pacifist beliefs. The Doukhobors managed to keep their identity and traditions throughout the Soviet period. However, under political and economical pressure, many of them have now left Georgia and their heritage is disappearing with the last inhabitants. Leo Tolstoy was interested in their non-violent outlook and supported them in several occasions.
In this Palme d'Or nominated minimalist drama, a seemingly calm family morning falls apart revealing hidden tensions.
As an orphan, for Jana, motherhood has always been priceless. When years later, she is raising a kid, single and homeless, Jana becomes a surrogate to offer her daughter the life she never had. Nine months and 14,000 USD. Is it that simple and priceless?
Republic of Georgia, 2016: in a small town of Gori, the birthplace of Stalin, his followers gather to commemorate him on the 63rd anniversary of his death when strange things begin to occur.
In 1993, after a war in Abkhazia, Georgia known as the Abkhaz-Georgian Conflict, thousands of ethnic Georgian families sought refuge in the decaying Soviet sanatoriums nestled in the town of Tskaltubo, in western Georgia. This poignant documentary unveils the untold stories of these displaced individuals as they try to build a new life amid the haunting ruins, revealing not only their resilience and camaraderie, but also the profound transformation of the sanatoriums from symbols of health and luxury to havens of survival and unity. Iamze, 81, and Nikusha, 12, are awaiting promised government housing, all the while being indelibly shaped by the echoes of war.