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.
Contemporary Georgian cinema is often a reflection of the country’s topical social problems. One such film depicts a poignant portrait of how a person tries to introduce their world to a foreign guest while dreaming of escaping from it himself. The film starts with the simplest situation, a meeting at the airport but a single lost business card turns the entire action into a platform for comic and dramatic misunderstanding. This is a story about the ritual of hospitality, which becomes an expression not of joy, but of deep inner despair. Georgian hospitality certainly i...
Niko Lortkipanidze’s “Tragedy Without a Hero” is one of the most horrifying and painful works of Georgian literature, a story of the inevitable confrontation between human self-respect, conscience and poverty. Revaz Nasidze’s film of the same name (2024) breathes new life into this topic, giving it color and flow. The literary text is transformed into a cinematic tragedy, where the main character is not a person, but the gradual disintegration of humanity and the process...
Modern Georgian cinema has been particularly political in recent years. All this serves the aim of rethinking and seeing Georgian-Russian relations from a new perspective over the past 30 years. Rusudan Glurjidze began talking about the Abkhazian war with her very first film, “House of Others” (2016) and with her latest film, “The Antique” (2024), she touched on the most recent political relations between Russia and Georgia. The director based the film on a true story - the mass ...
A man should manage to do three things in life: have a child, plant a tree and build a house. While a man succeeds in doing these things, what does a woman do? The issue of personal identity, of an independent person might be the most interesting topic for art since it involves the process of search, resistance, drama, tension, expectation and almost ...
