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.
Cinema is a very broad and diverse field. There are films on almost every topic: love, war, loneliness, human inner crisis, yet, death still remains one of its most difficult and rarely discussed topics, as it really is. Perhaps because mortality is always associated with something imperceptible to the living. Consequently, when a filmmakers approach ...
People go blind when it comes to their own wrongdoing. It is always easy to see the mistake of others’ but almost impossible to see one’s own. It is not difficult for them to sacrifice someone else if they can maintain their own well-being in return. They slowly get used to the pangs of conscience, then they even forget about them. Eventually, they get so used to this situation that they never consider themselves guilty again, they blame everyone else for their problems and that is when real blindness begins. Gigisha Abashidze’s film “Neighbors” (2018) is about ...
A mystical setting by a campfire, in the forest... With her eyes closed, an elderly woman is reciting "The Knight in the Panther's Skin." The listener she has is also one - a woman as well, young, amazingly beautiful and with veiled head. Being silent in untimeliness, they seem to be trusting the magic of words... This could be any era - from Rustaveli’s time to the present. This is the scene that begins Erekle Inashvili's documentary "The Country of Rustaveli" (2023). The woman who recites "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" in the film is a ...
What is the life of an artist like in modern Georgia, who has already reached middle age and his once existing plans, goals and dreams for the future remain in the past due to reality, social and political problems, even though the future seems to be only a hope for "forced migration"?! Nana Jorjadze's film "Forced Migration of Butterflies" (2024), based ....
