For the first time in the history of Georgian film, the portal of Georgian film criticism.
The project is funded by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth of Georgia.
Overview of Georgian Film
The platform Georgian Film Review is dedicated to an overview of modern Georgian film, its
features, trends, major aspects, and new movies; however, the reader will also find some materials from the history of Georgian film and also the best reviews developed in the early years by the film critics of the older generation.
Professional and student film critics are involved in the working process of the website, whose analytical articles regarding Georgian professional and student feature, documentary, and animated films will greatly contribute to the refinement and development of our film criticism as well as the popularization of the Georgian national film.
The website is bilingual, in Georgian and English, in order to provide desirable and proper information for both local and international movie fans.
It has been a long time since a film produced in Georgia has been nominated for an Oscar in the name of Georgia. The only recent success is Giorgi Ovashvili’s “Corn Island” being shortlisted, which ends the “success” of modern Georgian cinema in Hollywood. In 2025, Giorgi Sikharulidze’s film “Panopticon” was released on behalf of Georgia, in the hope that this project would impress Americans. The action in the film takes place around Sandro, a high school boy whose mother is in emigration and whose father is in a monastery. Sandro himself lives alone with his grandmother. He is a ...
Indifference is a crime but everything that follow it is a punishment. People fight against someone or something and when they fail at least several times, they begin to surrender. They adapt to the life they live in continuing to exist with feigned happiness. The reason for everything and the main problem is the state of man’s adaptation. He can adapt to everything, be satisfied with even a little, but not be defeated any more. "The world is a dangerous place to live not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing, wrote Albert Einstein. Davit Borchkhadze's film, "Neighbor" (2021) follows a similar ...
The reason why cinema is a unique art is that it can combine several different fields into one whole form, which include literature, art, music, theatre and visual arts. In this respect, Lali Kiknavelidze’s “Kakhetian Train” (2019) is one of the most accurate examples of how different mediums not replace each other but continue and enrich. This film combines Pirosmani’s art with the literary source and the unique capabilities of cinema. Not only does it convey a human’s pain and regret but demonstrates how art can ...
As it is commonly called, two nuclear families (husband and wife + children) check in in a family hotel to spend the summer days of their vacation. The hotel is located in the middle of the forest, near a lake and a swamp. Solitude is excluded, which might have been the goal of each of them when they chose this very place for their vacation and environment, isolated from “civilization.” These are the conditions in which the story of Vakhtang Jajanidze’s ...
