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.
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 ....
The tale of the “Little Prince” used to change so much people’s perception of the dimensions of existing sensations that the burden and tragic consequences of ignorance had no target. To follow this story more simply, the Little Prince’s calm knowledge of people and living beings penetrated the depths of the most desperate, vulnerable fears and seemed to make them vanish when Saint-Exupéry’s tale found its way to people. The more often the motif of this tale is repeated and ...
In recent Georgian auteur cinema, we come across more frequently with those directors who say no to classical narrative and build storytelling entirely on visuals. Sopho Berishvili’s short film “Illusion” (2024) is part of this experiment. The film offers minimalism from the very first shots, where there are no dialogues at all and human loneliness is shown in beautiful shots, but to what extent does this silence manage to convey real emotion to the viewer and where is the line between high art and artificially stretched shots? As soon as you start watching, you get the feeling that time has ...
