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.
In the 1920s, socialist censorship and ideology acted with strange concessions towards authors of avant-garde from time to time. There already existed a Bolshevik hysteria of unacceptability, which eventually created a censorship of non-existent facts in the 1930s. The same vocabulary, although much more direct and no less ignorant as well as a sense of ignorance was distinguished by the persecution of writers and poets of different ideas and those close to philosophy, faith and other values by German Nazism. There is nothing special ...
Georgian short films often manage to say more than films with big-budgets and long runtimes. Sometimes just a few minutes are enough to make a viewer immerse in thought. To let them think about questions that have no easy answers. Such is exactly Giorgi Ubilava's short film, "Beyond the Bars" (2023). This is not just a film about revenge. In fact, this is a story about people who have spent years tormented by their conscience and thinking ...
One of the controversial issues in modernity is the essence and nature of man - is an individual a spiritual being or can his life be reduced only to biological and social existence? And if man is truly a being with a soul, another question arises: are there spiritual connections between individuals? Is there an invisible force, an inexplicable factor that connects people to each other? This idea is echoed in Giorgi Menabde's student film, "Blood" (2018), where blood does not only denote ...
What is human life in the modern world if not relationships filled with emptiness and a longing for the glorious past, saturated with nostalgia and sadness, but what is the “glory” of the past or why was childhood sweeter than the present?! Nia Zhvania’s student film, “Rewinding” (2023), deals with these topics with a light and characteristic aesthetic that, reminds us of a commercial genre film at a glance, in terms of color scheme and editing style but at the same time manages to establish an emotional ...
