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 is unimaginable to be an artist and not be troubled by the pain of your country, people, and human fate and to be engaged in creative activity in such a way. If you do not hurt and grieve, you cannot think, and therefore, you cannot judge. This is the reason why valuable works of art are sometimes created and sometimes they are not. The director, Levan Koghuashvili’s films are an expression of this anxiety, when it is difficult for you to touch on painful topics, but your conscience does not allow you to turn a blind eye and wrap them up beautifully. So poignant ...
Tinatin Emiridze’s documentary, “Fog Curtain” (2019), tells the story of the Khulo State Drama Theater. More precisely, this film is more of a description than a narrative and its main problem might lie just in this. Before the director’s idea reaches the audience, it has to go through foggy landscapes (which occupy a fairly large part), the abundance of characters from the very first minute and the confusion caused by getting to know them from afar, unexpected changes in the plot and many other factors, as a result of which it reaches in a quite foggy manner those on the other side of the screen and does not leave any impression.
In the first part, the depiction of the snow-covered nature of Khulo...
In the history of modern cinema, Zaza Urushadze’s film “The Confession” (2017) is one of the most important works that highlights a person’s internal struggle, the burden of conscience and their relationship with society. The director tries to analyse the depths of a person’s psychological and spiritual state, fears and mistakes.
The story begins quite positively. Together with his disciple, father Giorgi arrives in a small village for a church service. In order to gain the locals’ goodwill and partake them ...
People look down on each other. They do not speak out about the injustice around them and continue to live in their shells until cracks appear in their housing and they have to go out. Society gives excessive importance to officials. They do not understand that officials are also ordinary people who have found themselves at a relatively high hierarchical level.
Mikheil Gabaidze's film, "Vasomotor Rhinitis" (2024) is neither a comedy nor a tragicomedy. It is a sharp social satire that criticizes the indifference and hierarchical structure of society. The film ...
We all have a list of special films. When you watch them, you get an aesthetic-philosophical shock and an impression that continues to live in you for years and settles in the depths of your own consciousness, becoming a part of you and never forgetting it. Time passes, you watch other, new films, but you also find the influence, citation or simple parallel of such films in other works, consequently, they become a kind of cultural measure and standard in your creative vision.
Such is for me Zaza Khalvashi’s film, “Namme” (2017), and it can be said freely, is one...
There might be a moment in every person's life when they realize that it is time for a change and something pushes them to deviate from the straight, mediocre, wrong path. It could be someone whose one word shakes you like a bolt of lightning or something that completely changes their consciousness and thinking. This happens especially when you realize that life is slowly pushing you towards the abyss, and you follow it like an exhausted, almost weightless log of wood, on which the current of the river sometimes knocks you over ...
Tobacco smoking is a serious health hazard that causes lung disease, cardiovascular problems and cancer. Nicotine and other toxic substances cause addiction, which makes it difficult to quit. Nevertheless, many people continue to smoke to relieve stress or for other purposes. Public health programs are trying to raise awareness and reduce smoking. Creating a film script dedicated to such a global problem is a simple but not very new and creative task. From the very beginning, cinema has been the best tool for propaganda but in order for the viewer to really want to change his life and abandon his vices after watching the film, it is ...
Cinema has always been a powerful tool for highlighting and discussing social issues. Film allows us to see our lives from a different perspective. One of the main tasks of directors is to entertain the audience as well as to understand the importance of solving social problems, and, in many cases, they do this in an interesting way in short films. To convey their message, authors do not need a lot of money, famous actors or weepy film music; a well-developed visual side and a correctly selected active problematic are enough.
Anna Sarukhanova's short film, "Till the End of the Day" (2016), follows two sisters’ strange story...
Primitive society lived in harmony with nature. People created, collected and built all necessities themselves. They survived on fishing and farming, provided life with each other’s help. At that time, the concept of property did not exist yet. Then the introduction of trade and money radically changed the structure of society. Money formed rich and poor classes. The concept of property also appeared, and this is where the problems began.
Nino, a character in Nutsa Aleksi-Meskhishvili's film "Line of Credit" (2014), tries to solve...
The pain of the 1990s remains an unhealed wound in the history of Georgia till today, the time when a front opened in Tbilisi and fellow citizens shot each other. As they would have said then, it was a “fratricidal war.” During this period, an entire generation was formed, for whom the street and its “academy” were more valuable than the law or morality. There was complete chaos in the country, where there were both foes and friends who would worry for each other. In this regard...
