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.
Senility with its inevitable hardships is an eternal topic that is touched upon quite often in the cinema and there are a number of cinematic masterpieces, which is why creating a new work on a similar topic is quite risky, even if the film is made well, the magnitude of the problem affects almost all viewers, therefore, it becomes more debatable. Tornike Bziava's film, "The Nest" (2011) depicts the unusual relationship between father and son. The once prominent chemist has almost lost the ability to speak in his old age. This is when the roles are ...
The goodness of Georgian documentary cinema and the deep vision of things and everything existing today are probably as much needed for modernity as hope. The hope not for a better future, but the fact that real life is born and grows only in the smallest, sincere seed of a dream.
Still under the conditions of Soviet ideology, Georgian documentary cinema covered various, unexpected areas of search and discovery, which determined its diverse topics. This legacy dictates a certain tradition with the works of Merab Kokochashvili, Guram Pataraia, Gela Kandelaki, Gogi Levashov-Tumanishvili, Guram Zhvania and many other documentarians. Georgian documentary and television film always developed on a different...
A parent is a person who should always be by the child's side. The world is very harsh on those people who are brought up by only a mother or a father. They often have an inferiority complex, they feel as if they are not sufficient for others. This problem worsens over time and creates a void. People try to fill this void through their lifetime.
The short film "Father" (2015) directed by Data Pirtskhalava has two main characters: Lado and Nika. They have been growing up without a father for a long ...
Abkhazia might be the most tragic and still unresolved part of the recent history of Georgia, it is a problem, both itself and its consequences. Along with the social or political aspect, it remains one of the main and contemporary topics in Georgian art. The young people (the generation that did not directly witness the war in Abkhazia) are interested in the problem of Abkhazia, its lost territories and, in general, the fate of people related to it in various ways, in cinema, theater, literature, music, and fine arts.
Such is the case of Giorgi Varsimashvili and Jeanne Nouchi‘s (with their own idea and screenplay) documentary film, “Hotel "Metallurg” (Georgia-France, 2023, Giorgi Varsimashvili is - editing director, together with Claudio Hughes, producer - together with Pierre...
People often make wrong decisions. They move impulsively, do not think about the conse-quences and sometimes find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then they regret and start all over again making the same mistakes. Some have the courage to begin a new life from a clean sheet, while others never let go of the past and create non-existent illusions in the hope of a beter life.
Giorgi Varsimashvili's feature film "Unfulfilled ...
Salome Latsabidze's short film "The Pool" (2021) tells about a theme well known to cinema – alienation, the tense relationship between mother and daughter. Working on this topic is interesting for many, that's why almost every director's filmography contains similar work. Therefore, creating something different and memorable is not so easy.
The director tried to present her film in an original way using metaphors and symbols. A young woman with her six-year-old child, Nini arrives in ...
English film documentarist, Paul Rotha, pointed out that a documentary film, first of all, should reflect today's problems and reality. Giorgi Mrevlishvili's film "Twelve Lessons" (2019) is an excellent example of this. It tells the story of Valerian Kotrikadze, a grandfather living in a village, who tries to pave the way for his autistic grandson, Vako, by developing his personal skills and overcoming difficulties so that he can integrated into society independently in the future.
Many feature films have been created on this topic, but when a documentary film is chosen to discuss such a painful issue...
"Physical reality is placed in the basis of the cinema and cinema material is reality captured on film” (Siegfried Kracauer). These words once again emphasize how important it is to reflect objective reality in documentary cinema. It should be descriptive, seek an important, real problem, show and consolidate facts and bring the "real reality" to the audience.
Modern Georgian documentary cinema is experiencing a clear progress, ...
What is love? A sea of pain, joy, disappointment and obligation. The feeling that pulls you towards that one and tries to make you give up everything. Because of this feeling, a person will go to all compromises. Sometimes individuals make wrong decisions in a state of affect. The thirst for revenge makes their minds so tarnished that they don't care about anything anymore, they don't think about the consequences...
Mystical cinema is one of the most sought-after genres for the world cinema industry. Its production began a long time ago and is still very popular today. Every year, hundreds of such films are made in the world. Mysticism in itself implies that it should contain fictional stories with paranormal events, adventures of maniacs and murderers, etc. However, it is possible that there is a minimum number of terrifying scenes in mysticism. In this case, the audience experiences fear in the background ...
