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.
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 ...
On a calm and peaceful spring morning, when nothing disturbs the comfort and a new bright day begins, the old peasant with a deep-wrinkled face, along with his grand-daughter in an old boat will approach the uninhabited small island in the river bed – the "no man's land." Upon coming ashore, the man tastes the soil, stirs it with his fingers and finds a mouthpiece buried in the mud. It is left by someone. Along with the household items, the girl brings a rag doll and places it with her other personal ....
If we review Georgian cinema (and not only), the vast majority of films are created for the audience to have fun, to relax during the short period of time they are watching the screen and to stop thinking about reality. However, cinema is not only an entertainment but an educational means as well. No other genre of art has such a strong influence on shaping the artistic taste of youth as cinema does. As the most democratic public art, it has a strong power of ideological and aesthetic influence on people. This power needs to be used successfully especially in the space where children grow up with a large dose ...
No matter how many conditions of dramatic unexpectedness there are, no matter how many times we try to introduce an incredible twist in the usual, narrative rhythm of cinema, it will still be a reaction every time, depending on the meaning of the content of what happened, and not just a desire to ask the question "What happened?"... However, this question is the very first thing that embodies the reaction of the audience who is surprised and traumatized with unexpectedness.
"10:45" (2021) – this is the title of ...
One clerk (bureaucrat) suddenly sneezed while he was at an opera performance. The splashes reached an elderly bald man sitting in front of him. The clerk took it to heart much because he recognized the official and apologized to him many times. Then, he made a special visit and asked to forgive. The bored old man (who was not the clerk's immediate superior) finally answered rudely. The clerk suffered greatly from this situation and died "suddenly." This is the synopsis of Anton Chekhov's short and very famous story, “The Death of a Government Clerk.”
The translated version of this story is the basis of Mikheil ...
Documentary film directors and their interest are surely attracted to numerous disasters and misfortunes, uninvestigated cases that remained an unrecognized event. Quest for truth requires a completely different documentary style and narrative form and a film about an unknown disaster aims at seeing the result of imagination and reality. TV and movie viewers have become accustomed to the fact that they are often offered an independent investigation in modern documentaries. This is an incredibly difficult burden for an author who has certain tragic stories used in the plot of a documentary film. Naturally, the TV documentary format is, more frequently, more intensively loaded with ...
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...
