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.
When a person leaves his homeland, he often thinks that he is only changing the country but he actually loses much more - his childhood, peace, his own environment and sometimes even himself. Emigration is not just moving to another country. It is a constant struggle for survival, a quest for one's place in the foreign environment and a daily attempt to maintain his dignity. All this is especially difficult when poverty, loneliness and ...
The city is gray in winter. The noisy streets leave a feeling of emptiness and people feel loneliness more acutely behind the lit windows. The New Year is a new beginning for many people but there are ones for whom it is just another hard night. It is this sad atmosphere that is reflected in Rezo Gigineishvili's film, "Lyrics" (2026). The main ...
We often encounter an artist’s attempt in modern student cinema, when he tries to say no to traditional storyline and present the viewer not with a particular story but with a pure emotional state. Such works are mainly built on silence, where words are superfluous and thought is formed only through visual plasticity, observation of the environment and the revival of symbolic signs. It is often difficult to draw the line between reality and metaphor since the director does not aim at building a logical chain but to awaken those primal...
It is increasingly rare in modern cinema to find works that not only tell a story but also confront the viewer with real problems. Mevlud Sabashvili's film, “Dividing Line” (2025) belongs to such a series of works. It deals with a topic that is painful, topical and often concealed. As a social and personal tragedy, domestic violence is not just a plot line here, it is a reality that defines many women’s everyday life. The film offers us not only the presentation ...
