Discoveries from Georgia World Cinema

22-year-old conservatoire student Andro is filmed by his friend Mariam while performing magic tricks. The audience soon becomes increasingly uneasy as the tricks get more complicated.

A traumatized boy starts to bully his new classmates, and tries to find meaning in his life.

Film tells the story of a grumpy, reclusive toad Geno and his neighbors, who are forced to seek a new habitat because a construction site invades the pond where they live.

After years of absence and failure, a prodigal son is compelled to return and live with his elderly father. The two men, who are struggling with their conflicting emotions, are forced to deal with their memories, dreams, and fears in a world without the woman who once brought them together.

"Two Wheels" is a short film centered around a young man who, despite using a wheelchair, is full of life, cheerful, courageous, and complete in himself. He has friends, a girlfriend, ambitions, and dreams that he actively strives to achieve.

A short film that captures a relationship on the verge of collapse - between two people who couldn’t be more different. It explores miscommunication and emotional deflection. It’s a portrait of romantic decay, where comfort turns claustrophobic and love loses its shape.

A sad snowman from the mountains befriends a girl down in the countryside. The title describes the third act.

Anna is a 45 years old woman, living alone with her mother in the center of Tbilisi. One night, Anna's life takes a different turn, when at the concert, she sees the face of a woman in the crowd. How can one word change someone's life? How other's life influences our own? How can a person lose her face and identity?

A documentary about the Second Coming, made by Studio "Graali".

A long poem to the mountains, Let Us Flow explores the isolated mountainous region of Tusheti, in Northeast Georgia. The film considers the importance of ritual, the maintenance of community ties, and how modernisation and migration are transforming rural landscapes

The main character of this documentary is one of Georgia's most popular actors, Kakhi Kavsadze, who walks us through this chronicle of the Kavsadzes, a family of famous Georgian folk singers and actors.

As a child, Zhenya used to watch cartoons before going to sleep. While revisiting family VHS footage, he begins to reflect on how deeply those cartoons shaped his sense of life — and of death.

Every day, the woman pours herself a cup of coffee and sits in the same place, at the same time, calling the same number on her phone. One day, her call is unexpectedly answered. It is revealed that the stranger who answers the phone lives in the woman’s childhood home – the home the woman’s family were forced to leave to escape war. The two start to form a bond.

This is an animated film, which is based on the adventure novel «Fourteen Crystals Theory», written by the director himself.

"Kartli" refers both to Georgia’s medieval kingdom and a Tbilisi sanatorium sheltering refugees from the 1990s war in Abkhazia, meant as temporary but lasting 30 years. The crumbling building became a recreated “country”, with a farm, gardens, terraces and rooms where old VHS tapes revive memories of a lost paradise. Through Tamuna, Irma, and others, the film explores exile, trauma, and shared resilience, showing that nothing stays the same inside Kartli.

Utopian symbolic playgrounds from memories are interconnected through sharp, flickering lights.

Set in Tbilisi, the film’s protagonist walks through the city’s streets as he contemplates whether to accept a job abroad or to stay at home with his family and girlfriend.

ANDRO DADIANI's political performances dissect the oppression by state and church in Georgia and conquer Tbilisi's urban spaces. As a queer, non-binary protest and performance art figure, their identity remains a secret. The danger of open resistance is too great.

Soldiers in cars drive around the city day and night, erasing or covering with paint any drawing on the wall, even one that does not have political overtones. But for two “spontaneous protestors” - a writer who is refused to be published, and a young artist-photographer, whose art is also now not in honor, a kind of exchange of painted messages becomes the meaning of their existence in an era that seems to be not conducive to creativity.

Live writing is the plot and artistic principle of cinematic improvisation by Nana Djordjadze and Irakli Kvirikadze.

Aggravated by sins, prematurely aged Gio opens the way to the sudden salvation of the soul, it turns out how he needs fatherly love and faith in healing for his little, crippled boy.

Images of horror from Chechnya. Destroyed houses, people fleeing, mutilated bodies, dead children. The 14 episodes, which assemble footage from the first and second Chechen wars, do not seek to explain or comment. They record the war in its raw violence—and they do not allow the viewer to look away. Some of the footage was shot by Tarak Protsuk, a Ukrainian journalist who was killed in Baghdad in April 2003. Nine minutes, fourteen stories: shocking documents from a ravaged country.

Once, after being interrogated at the border, I saw a long fence through the car window. It was tinkling in the wind, overgrown with ruderal plants. That charged image was a manifestation not only of oppression but of resistance and desire. ||||||||/__ | is a lengthy passage that captures the liminal conditions of the exiled body. In emigration and exile, determination is juxtaposed with vulnerability: one must constantly break down barriers, including those of one's own body. The film employs various visual and sound techniques and performative gestures that sensitize surfaces, boundaries, media, and spaces.

The film is about a person who feels like a “passerby” in life and tries to find their place.

In 2008, through Russian military interventions, South Ossetia was declared an “independent” territory. Robinson and part of his family still live in the Georgian settlement that was built for the refugees. The story of a parallelism: while Robinson gazes into the distance, uprooted, life for his grandchildren begins in the here and now.

After accidentally wandering onto someone's property, a simple young man is taken hostage for a ransom of a hundred dollars by two cousins.

Tbilisi at the end of the 80s, its life, the tense expectation of changes

A transgender woman reunites with her long lost twin brother

A man steals a wooden fence from a tall residential building. A neighbor’s child falls down from the fence and dies. A man finds an eraser which fell from the pocket of a deceased child. He tries to confess his guilt to the deceased child’s father.

This German documentary looks inside a nearly idle restaurant in a dowdy building in the country of Georgia, its listless workers waiting for business to pick up. The mournful atmosphere serves as a metaphor for the uncertain future of Georgia.

The elderly Amaia has Alzheimer's and can no longer recognize Nerea, her own daughter. From her point of view, reality is distorted, and being in a confined space makes the relationship between mother and daughter unbearable.

Two German tourists Christian and Daniel are visiting Georgia. They are searching for a food in a village and suddenly they are invited on a Georgian wedding. Their real adventures starts here.

The films depicts how people of various character handle the magic egg.

Nutsa, a young mother, lives with her two children in a suburbs of Tbilisi in Georgia. Her partner Goga is in prison. They get married, so she gains the right to talk to him once a month in the visiting room on the other side of the glass. The ceremony is quick with a strange ambiance. Goga in prison, Nutsa with children outside, a routine sets in.

Following the death of her grandfather, 25-year-old Natia returns to Georgia to see her grandmother. Having lived in Europe for many years, Natia sees with fresh eyes and first hand the brutal Georgian tradition of bride kidnapping. Angry and stricken, Natia is forced to reassess her culture and her own values.

Professor of entomology Vakhtang Itrieli published several articles in which he sharply condemned Georgian nationalism. He calls for civil harmony in the name of universal ideals. For this, he is persecuted by nationalists who threaten to expel him from the university. Vakhtang meets a girl Nina. She is sympathetic to Vakhtang's problems. He, in turn, feels that danger is hanging over the girl...

Elder son Mikael lives with his family in a small Chechen foothill village. He has a love of art which he hopes to pursue, and a girl whom he wishes to marry. However, upon invasion by Russian forces for the second time, he must put those things aside and leave for the mountains to defend his homeland.

Gogi is on his way to celebrate the New Year. On the snowy road, he meets a beautiful girl whose car broke down. Gogi gives the tire of his car to beautiful stranger, and he himself, fascinated by his own behavior, meets the New Year alone in the car on a deserted road.

The film deals with the treacherous nature of men and how they betray women, or "The Georgian Don Juan".

A forty-year old who lived a comfortable life in the Soviet Union, ends up in Georgia in the difficult condition of having to adapt to change. She is granted a loan at a high interest rate and little by little becomes drowned in debt, trapped in a vicious circle that she can’t get out of.

Tbilisi, early 20th century. The merchant Agha's wife's scheming nephew, Grantika, arrives from France at his house, and invents new entertainment to dispel his boredom.

New year-themed comedy about love and relationships between teen girls and boys.

A fellow villager takes away Bakha's fiancée. In order to seek revenge, Bakha asks the Kists for help. The Bakha community decides to cut off the village due to its connection with the Urzhuls.

On the street of a bleak suburb four deadbeats hang out and do nothing, but one of them doesn’t look like the others. He is the one who finds out that the world is a struggle for survival, where boundaries between humans and animals are dreadly blurred.

I, George Balanchine is a film portraying the life story of a choreographer who became a legend in his own lifetime. He was known as Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, turning into George Balanchine in Paris, and then emerging as Mr. B in New York, the city of the shortest abbreviations… Balanchine’s life stories are enriched by visuals depicting choreographies staged by him and photos, a combination that paints a clear picture of this greatest figure in the world of ballet of the 20th century.

A man loses his beloved and everything else he holds dear, prompting him to question the meaning of life. The internal conflict leads him into depression, where the only way out seems to be suicide.

Film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov

The first and most daring erotic shots in Georgian cinema. The film is built on many dramatic and erotic film frescoes. Shota Kalandadze's new trend in cinema is a film poem. The film deals with the feelings experienced by a person in different years, which flash like a truth.

The young King Parnavaz expelled the conqueror Azon from the Georgian lands and became the first king of the united kingdom of Eastern and Western Georgia.

The film is about Mamia (father) and Martha (mother), who kicked their transgender child Levan (Ella) out of home at an early age. They hadn’t seen their kid for ten years. After ten years their child is murdered in town. Mamia brings their kid’s corpse back to the village where he and Martha live. The return of their dead kid opens old wounds and they start thinking whether the decision of kicking their kid out was right – or should they have accepted him the way he was?

Three downtrodden friends reunite by chance after years apart and strike out on one last adventure in an attempt to recreate the halcyon days of their youth.