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...
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...
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...
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 time. Five years later, the father knocks on their door,...
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,...
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 Dream" (2010) is a story of unrealized love. The plot seems to be trivial. A boy is hopelessly in love with a girl, Ani. Ani has a boyfriend and lives with him. The boy...
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 a resort town to meet her mother she hasn’t seen for a long. Their meeting ...
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 ...
"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, because the works of recent years are significantly...
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, they just stand up and do what they think is right. "What kind of shooter is he, how does he know where ...