Mystical cinema is one of the most sought-after genres for the world cinema industry. Its production began a long time ago and is still very popular today. Every year, hundreds of such films are made in the world. Mysticism in itself implies that it should contain fictional stories with paranormal events, adventures of maniacs and murderers, etc. However, it is possible that there...
Georgian cinema created artistically valuable productions since its origins and therefore, its achievements never surprise us. Films, which are of special importance for Georgian culture, have become an equal part of the world cinema and have won international recognition more than once. Lana Gogoberidze’s name has long been among the "founders" of the new Georgian cinema, and her work is connected with various stages...
Emptiness, the feeling that comes with pain and loneliness after the departure of a loved one. This feeling cannot go away. Neither friends nor others can replace parents. After they are gone, life becomes different, colorless, and there are no new blank pages to start all over again. When you stay alone, pains surround you, you leave your body and look at yourself from the outside. You realize that you are in chaos, there is obscurity around you and there is no way out of it. You have only two choices: ...
Khatuna Vashadze's debut film, "Bullet" (2022) is quite eloquent and memorable, which leaves the audience with something to think about. It shows a cruel world where one unintentional action can destroy an entire life. When a little boy on a picnic is hit by a blind bullet, a happy family life is destroyed, a once ideal existence turns into torture. The father is trying to somehow save the family, the mother is mourning, the police are powerless, there are no witnesses, there is nothing to do, and the case is closed in a few months. The father will have to find...
Different branches of art have their expressive means. Painting uses visual forms, literature uses words, and cinema uses both (and, of course, many more). It is interesting to observe how the same message, topic, is transferred from one field of art to another or how a work of one field becomes an inspiration for a work of another (and sometimes third) field of art. Such is Niko Pirosmani's painting, "Kakhetian Train," which first became the basis for Archil Kikodze's story of the same name, and then this story became a film directed by Lali ...
In real life, we humans often become victims of our own emotionality, dreamy nature and naivety. Often, without thinking, we get trapped in the whirlpool of our own fantasies and forget to look at reality objectively. We are admired by things or people, and we cannot analyze to what extent the feelings we experience or convey correspond to reality. There are times when we trust those whom we do not even know, we fall in love with those whose personality and life we really have no idea about, we build towers of dreams without ...
Alienation in the family is a familiar topic for Georgian cinema. Guram Bakradze's student film, "Dad" (2014) also deals with this topic. It is worth noting that the director told us this problem succinctly, sequentially but without many question marks. The work is devoid of useless details and the attention is focused only on those moments that the director needed for a specific purpose. There are only three main characters in the film, who represent the typical images of Georgian society. The dad, Gurami (Davit Bakhtadze) is burdened with responsibilities. There is a long distance between...
Cinema art, with its versatile means of expression, offers the director various opportunities to convey his message to the audience in one form or another. How the director will use this opportunity depends on his talent. An original vision, a distinctive style of narration, relevant topics and many other factors determine the success of the film. One of the most important roles is played by a film narrative, the story development and the film structure which maintains its...
In the category of short films of the 2022 Tbilisi International Film Festival, a student animated film, "Skyscraper" (2020) was shown, which easily took its place in the list of my favorite works. Rarely have I liked a small cinematic story that puts its message across so succinctly, eloquently and impressively. Moreover, about such an eternal human vice and, unfortunately, an insurmountable problem like corruption. “Animation can explain whatever the mind of man...
A fable in literature and cinema is an eloquent, expressive and multi-layered form, which excludes ideological-conceptual or intentional violence on the reader/spectator and is organized without standard frameworks, strictly established norms. It breaks stereotypes, is completely distanced from them and is governed by its own internal rules. The form of the modern fable is even more free and