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.
Since the restoration of independence, films with various topics have been outlined in Georgian cinema. Most frequently, they deal with social issues, those that are more familiar and customary to the masses. For example, the consequences of the Abkhazian war on society, the street, drugs, poverty, etc. Among them are prisons or people rehabilitated from prison. Tinatin Kajrishvili’s film “Brides” (2014) largely deals with this issue, although this work is distinguished by the fact that it shows a familiar topic from a different perspective. Films about prisons are generally focused on criminals, their living environment, the ...
Most films show war with noise, action, confrontation but there is another way - a slow, silent one, based on things. Nino Gogua’s documentary “The Things” (2017) is the representative of this different language. It speaks with things, the archive of the past and silence. It is not just a chronicle of displacement, it is a cinematic attempt to restore the idea of home in a space where home no longer exists but things still speak. What remains when a house is taken away, words ...
September 7, 2024 turned into another important day in the history of Georgian cinema. Dea Kulumbegashvili's "April" (2024) was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival. At the same time, it was also nominated for the main prize "Golden Lion." This young director was introduced to the audience back in 2020 with her first feature film, "The Beginning." Four years later, with "April" did she c...
Caring for a parent with disabilities which is associated with physical and emotional difficulties is a huge challenge for a child. This is inversion of roles, where the child, who should naturally feel the care of the parent, takes on the role of the guardian himself. In such a situation, everyday life turns into a continuous chain of routine duties, which includes not only physical assistance but also constant emotional support. One of the biggest...
