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.
The “little man” has existed since the beginning of humanity, but in the last two centuries it has become one of the most dominant subjects of discussion in art. Be it literature, fine arts or cinema – the existence of the little man and the issues that accompany it are seen as a significant and insoluble problem.
Mikheil Gabaidze’s film, “Vasomotor Rhinitis” (2024) is a social satire that is free film adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “Death of a Government Clerk.” From the very beginning, it is worth praising how precisely the work has been chosen, which allows the director to ...
Society has a hard time accepting different people. They try to make you like them and make you have nothing special, they don’t accept new things, they drown in a world full of dogmas and shackles that they suffocate. Monotony is like a noose around their necks and they can’t breathe. If they notice that you’re not like them, they scold you and don’t hesitate to throw stones at you. This is not just a Georgian problem, it’s the same in other countries ...
Films based on real events are especially popular with viewers. People are much more interested in the world saved by Superman single-handedly, not the feat of a real person, a person who did not give up in a difficult moment and followed his goal to the end, so making films based on true stories is becoming more and more relevant, which is very good. Such films provide an opportunity to look at events in a new way and evaluate them with different eyes, which is what Nikoloz Khomasuridze’s historical-biographical work, “Ekvtime: Man of God” (2018), serves. The film shows the amazing story of one person who, managed to save the cultural heritage of the country while in emigration.
The basis of any such film is its atmosphere, ...
Cinema loves cities where either nothing happens or everything happens. For the French, Paris has always been like that. For American cinema, one of these is New York, and for modern Georgian cinema of the recent period, Chiatura has become such a source of inspiration, a town where the rich should live, although it resembles Orwell's world.
Chiatura is as inexhaustible as its ore with its topics and problems, which is why directors try to find important, interesting stories to tell from so many "precious stones." This historical town came under the attention of French-Canadian director Toby Andris. For him, as for everyone, social problems became a source of inspiration. The inadequate financial compensation ...
Tamta Melashvili's "Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry" was recognized in literary circles as the best Georgian novel in 2020. This fact received mixed reviews from critics and society. Part of the public was delighted with the work largely appreciating the author's courage and attempt to bring taboo topics to light in Georgia, talking about women's problems from an angle that is only discussed behind the scenes. Some accused the author of stereotypical thinking. Despite the mixed attitude, the fact is that Tamta Melashvili's work ...
Life in the 1990s was a painful time for everyone. People had to fight for survival every day. During that period, they learned both to ignore and help each other. If they hadn't had each other and hadn't been in groups, they mightn't have survived in that chaotic world. It was the division into groups and parties that led to the war, in which many people died. One of the reasons for the war, after all, was the lack of communication. People did not talk to
In Georgian (and probably in any) society, public either lives according to traditionally established stereotypes, or asks others to live like that or – asks both together – themselves and others too. And the "violators" of the "universal" order either deserve to be scolded and reproached, or they are misunderstood and become objects of active (pseudo-liberal) teaching. Such methods of upbringing seem to have a non-severe, non-aggressive and non-destructive ...
Zurab Iobashvili's short documentary film, "Where the Moon Rises" (2021) is a form of documentary television portrait and reportage, in which the main hero is not only an action figure, but also a narrator.
Television film has a great role in the history of Georgian cinema. Even now, offering new material to the audience often occurs according to these traditions, although the film, which should create a portrait, faces many challenges, providing Georgian documentary cinema technically and materially is difficult, just as it is difficult to find its original
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What kind of feeling arises when we have to take the first serious step? It is nice and scary, causing keen interest at the same time as well as the feeling of pride that you are so big that can cope with being in the large house alone. You are able and you should care for the people around you. At this time, you seem to stand upright, gain height and self-confidence and realize that you are already an adult.
Sandro Suladze's short feature film "The Watchers" (2021) is about the inexhaustible fantasy, wild imagination, ascetic life and the first steps towards manhood of two young brothers.
The movie begins without any prehistory, ...
Religious-philosophical ideas about destiny have always been the subject of judgment both in works of art and in philosophers’ thinking. According to Niccolò Machiavelli: "Fortune determines one half of our actions, but that, even so, it leaves us to control the other half or thereabouts." In mythology, fate plays an important role in disposing the lives of gods and mortals. It is impossible to have one true opinion on this. Actually, only destiny plays a big role in our life choices, we control it if they both have their ...
