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In 1937, neighbours would gather in the evenings to listen to the gramophone played by Daniela, a peasant who loved music. However, an insult from a fellow villager was enough to send the innocent Daniela to the Gulag on absurd charges.
The film describes the psyche of a suicide, Stockholm syndrome, and how a person can become addicted to the hardest drug.
The absurdity of war, where people lose the ability to communicate and moral values. The story of a woman and man who have lost the sense of reality, in Ionesco's absurd genre. Despite the constant conflict, they can no longer stay calm together. The war is over but they stay in a separate, isolated world - where is no fear but the silence.
In the harsh mountainous countryside of Svaneti (Georgia) . Happiness is brief and the love of life of the Dina dies. Tradition says she must marry to the first man who offers his hand and leave her child..
sexually assaulted girl takes revenge by the influence of her beloved friend
Temo is an unemployed actor who drives around 100km a day on a scooter, performing the duty of a delivery man. Based on the novel Courier’s Tales by Temo Rekhviashvili, who plays himself in the film, Anka Gujabidze crafts a poignant but humorous black and white photo adventure, in which a daily ride through the opulently dilapidated Georgian capital Tbilisi morphs into a nightmarish vision of poverty, corruption and estrangement.
About human's life
Most of the Christmas trees sold in Europe originate from a small mountainous region of Georgia. Together with the families running Christmas tree businesses we follow the journey of the ultimate winter symbol crossing countries and cultures, from Georgian fir forests, through Christmas tree farms in Denmark, shopping rush and festive fireworks. As the holidays are over and the cities quiet down, here and there lie the abandoned Christmas trees.
By the lake, a woman studies astrology. A beautiful man emerges from the water: is he the man promised by the stars?
A man is released from jail and sets out to settle unfinished business.
A documentary about young people born after the early-1990s Abkhaz–Georgian conflict. Through six stories of young Abkhazia and Georgia protagonists, it focuses on how inherited post-conflict realities shape everyday life, identity, mobility, and the possibility of dialogue, without turning the film into a political debate.
Time has stopped in a little, almost deserted industrial city Chiatura. People, tired of everyday struggling for survival, keep their inertial meaningless existence. In a little, isolated house at the edge of the city live two elderly sisters. Lily (60 years old) works as a Cableway conductor and guides workers from the city to the factory every day. Tatyana (64 years old) is unemployed and mainly is busy doing housework. Despite poor living conditions, their micro world had been idyllic, before Lily got a chance to leave Chiatura, moving in another city with her daughter. On a farewell day tension rises between the sisters. Tatyana still hopes and believes that Lily will change her mind and will not abandon her. At the same time she realizes that it`s the last chance for her to escape from swamp and spend her last years with her daughter.
Utopian symbolic playgrounds from memories are interconnected through sharp, flickering lights.
A young psychiatrist who is dying on the border of unreal and real space. This film shows that war is a madness.
Based on characters from the popular Georgian TV series, the film centers on the wedding of the series’ iconic couple—Kato and Dato.
A simple Tbilisi story seen by 12 directors,of which the first begins and the 12th ends the film.The directors and the actors as well the genre are changing. All actors are playing leading roles. Represantives of different professions are also involved in the film to create an image of Georgian society.
Civil War in the 1990s. Society is divided into two opposing parts. The protagonist has relatives and friends on both sides, he is torn by this predicament.
Experimental short film based on the original play 'THE FORTY' by Howard Barker.
The director, Gio Mgeladze, alongside his friends, travels to Tibet for 7 days.
17-year-old Renal is brought to a sex worker by his uncle to prove his masculinity to his patriarchal father.
After 11 years confined to her family home, Adelina, a young trans woman, flees a Georgian village for Vienna in search of the freedom to be herself. As she builds her new life, she faces the past that refuses to let her go. Through immersive imagery and the mother-daughter bond, A Song Without Home paints a layered portrait of belonging and the complexity of freedom beyond physical liberation.
Since the late 1960s the guitar has been adopted and transformed by musicians across the Caucasus. Inspired by traditional genres, such as the courtly mugham and the songs and tunes of ashiq bards, guitarists have developed a unique sound, new techniques and styles of playing. Gitara traces the development of this musical subculture, following the lives of guitarists from the suburbs of Azerbaijan's capital Baku to the rural villages of Borçalı (Kvemo Kartli) in Georgia.
The directors of the film met in Tbilisi, shortly thereafter, they made the decision to escape the burning sun of the city. They ventured into the mountains, the observatory village of Abastumani. Initially planned 2 days stay extended to 2 months. They, both captivated by the magnificence and mystery of Abastumani, embarked on capturing the very essence and beauty of this place. Fast forward 5 years, and one of the directors chose to reedit the original cut and change the script secretly to HIM. Through this covert act, she interwove her own narration, delving into her once-concealed feelings and emotions that had coursed through the entire creative process.
"First video piece composed of source material for the ongoing epic Comedy, Insomnia of Worlds" "The rotting of the base material of everything. Water, dust, bones, stench. Again: marble is a mere deposit in the earth, gold and silver mere sediments; your clothing is animal hair, your purple is fish blood; and so on with all else. And the vital spirit is the same, changing from this to that." Marcus Aurelius
Arriving in Venice to fulfill his grandmother's last wish, a young Malaysian Muslim musician loses her ashes, turning the city into an intimate quest of signs.
The story of one day of three different people who decide to leave their native place at the same time.
As a young couple, Nika and Salome's everyday life changes due to gravitation. Nika becomes a murderer, Salome converts to a religious sect, awaiting the end of the world. Nika's behaviour is infantile, he runs around a playground holding his newborn son Kartlos like a steering wheel, imitating the sound of an engine. Nika immediately befriends strangers; for him social barriers are non-existent. He asks questions just for the sake of conversing. Unable to follow orders, he acts his own way. Salome is childlike as well, everything unfamiliar brings her both interest and fear. Like a child, she has many stimuli and doesn't limit her endeavours. She often repeats words for pleasure and talks to herself. Nika and Salome are united by a sense of loss. Salome was orphaned by losing her parents in a car crash, Nika's father is deceased as well. Their need to be safe remains unsatisfied. Exposed people seek a strong father figure, be it Stalin, Christ or aliens.
The late Georgian writer, filmmaker and university professor, Zaza Khalvashi, delivers a quirky yet genuine tale of mundanity in this posthumously produced feature. Drawing Lots is a vignette of a seaside community where an apartment block and courtyard serve as an amphitheatre for the mysterious power dynamics that play out in the residents’ intertwined lives.
Story of a poverty-stricken family living in a seaside city struggling to rise above the temptations of crime to make an honest living.
Priest Giorgi, a former Film Director, is sent to serve the small parish in the mountain village. To bring villagers closer to church he starts showing films there. After the screening of the first picture - "Some Like It Hot" - the audience imply that the local music teacher Lili looks exactly like Marilyn Monroe. After meeting Lili, Father Giorgi's balance between cleric and secular world starts to quiver - the woman is extremely sexy and the temptation is difficult to resist.
Portrait of Seraphim Bit-Kharibi, an Assyrian Orthodox Christian monk residing in Georgia, who sings in Aramaic, the mother tongue of Jesus Christ
Lana Gogoberidze's thesis film about Gelati Monastery, a medieval monastic complex near Kutaisi in the Imereti region of western Georgia.
The line separating reality and fiction is erased in this film-within-a-film about a shy actor portraying a brave hero.
im tired by stupid moderators... its georgian movie and original title is "კომა" https://global.cavea.plus/ka/movies/coma-5b http://geocinema.ge//ka/movies/1083 https://feola.ge/%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90/ https://georgian-cinema.ge/index.php/ge/2015-03-27-12-14-46/288-2013-3?highlight=WyJcdTEwZDlcdTEwZGRcdTEwZGJcdTEwZDAiXQ==
Based on Niko Lortkipanidze’s novel "Georgia for Sale", the film portrays the painful and absurd reality of Georgia being treated as a commodity.
A bizarre social satire about a family mob gone wild who blames a rescue team for the death of their mother. After an absurd manhunt, an agonizing wait begins for a young paramedic whilst she waits for the police to come; slowly yet surely one comes to understand the family's anger, after all, nobody feels responsible and everyone just - waits.
The Waltz tells about an invisible connection with a departed loved one and the mystical possibility of soul reincarnation. The main character experiences the loss of his mother, but she comes to him in her new incarnation.
In a delicate and humane manner, this film touches upon a very serious issue: how to stop fearing death while being in love with life. We talk (and laugh) about this subject with the protagonists of this film, modern geniuses and ordinary people from different parts of the world.
The film consists of three short stories "The Well", "Birds" and "The Song".
On the edge of a wordless world, deep in the misty mountains of the Caucasus, an old man watches the blue sky die and be reborn above him.
Khaburzania and Koridze are serving their mandatory military service by guarding an abandoned factory which was sold recently, they are ordered not to let anyone inside. Despite the harsh conditions, guys are having fun, they're joking on walkie-talkie with the officer, Koridze even manages to sneak out for a date. It seems like an ordinary shift until some workers arrive at the fence, they desperately want to get inside and finish work they've started before.
Victor is a single father from a poor social class, who takes care of his autistic son Niko. To keep up with all the family expenses, Victor has to take multiple jobs, however he still can't manage to save money for Niko's proper therapy and for parental training in order to better help his beloved son in development and socializing. And one day, when Victor sees no hope, when he feels to be totally useless to his son, he takes a step that turns out to be fatal for Niko and himself.
Based on Goethe's poem "Reineke Fox".
A film with parallel editing tells a story about two young people from Tbilisi. The action takes place on one frosty day in winter. Zaza is a writer, Mamuka is a criminal. They do not know each other. One is driven by a wish to take revenge; the other is driven by love and chivalry. Both are mistaken, as their ambitious decisions resemble a game with fate... Will their roads cross?...
James Aitken, a British spy, is sent on a secret mission deep into the mountains of the Caucasus. Disguised as a traveler, he is caught in an ambush by a group of mysterious highlanders.
Four mischievous children enter a virtual world. When they put on virtual glasses. They become who they want to be.
When casino heist goes wrong, Dato and Lasha must come up with large sum of money in 24 hours to pay off the crime boss and save their lives.
A widowed mother and daughter's ascetic life in an isolated village in the Caucasus mountains is interrupted by the arrival of a foreign traveller in need of shelter. His presence awakens erotic longing in both women, who are left to simmer in their guilty consciences after the traveller departs.
Showing a day from the life of an ordinary young Georgian obsessed with the instinct of self-destruction, desperate protest and morbid nihilism, this film is one of the last Georgian films created at the period of the collapse of the USSR in 1989 1990. Levan Glonti does a wonderful job at portraying a collapse of an empire reflected in the collapse of an individual. Dge (The Day) was released soon after the break up of the Soviet Union, in 1991.
Against the backdrop of a sprawling half-constructed tower block in Tbilisi, Viktor, a local celebrity drag queen, and Tarzan, a drifting teenager, search for fleeting possibilities of intimacy in the vestiges of a collapsing world. Playing out meager tasks of survival in a restricted not so far future, Viktor and Tarzan slowly come to understand their environment as a vestibule of the afterlife.
This film explores how neighbours sharing a courtyard are both shaped by, and indifferent to, domestic violence.
Wedding reception at bombing time.
Debut short film by Revaz Nasidze, Based on Niko Lortkiphanidze's Novel "Tragedy Without A Hero"