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 ...

FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH ADULTHOOD Read More

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...

THREAD THAT WILL BREAK SOONER OR LATER Read More

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...

ON KINDNESS, FAITH AND MIRACLES  Read More

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 Giorgi ...

A VIEW OF THE UNEXPECTED ENDING Read More

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...

FEAR TRANSFORMED INTO A LIVING CHARACTER Read More

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...

FAMILY OBLIGATIONS Read More

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...

POISINED WITH ETERNITY Read More

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,...

EMPTY SPACE Read More