People often make rash decisions. They do something and don't even think about the consequences. The most important thing for them is to solve the existing problem at that moment and take a breath, not caring what the consequences may be. Sometimes they forget that there are no hopeless situations. The only irreversible state is death, dead people cannot be revived. Fathers are the main problem – solvers ...
In 2020, for the first time in the history of Georgia, the football club managed to get into the 32 best clubs of the UEFA Champions League. Lanchkhuti women's football club "Lanchkhuti" succeeded in doing so. This event became the cause of overall attention and joy. In their student documentary "Lanchkhuti" After Three Years" ...
One of the tasks of short film is to present young directors. This format allows the author to introduce a wider audience his artistic language, findings and insights. With a small budget and in less time, the director can create a film that will be remembered by movie lovers. The more experimental such a film is, the more interesting it can be for film critics. Georgian ...
Memories never leave people. They are only forgotten for a short while and then suddenly resurface. These fragments of the past are sometimes a punishment, sometimes a gift – they contain what the mind wants to remember and what part of life has been forgotten. They don't have time and space. The story that happened in the past moves the conscious into the unconscious and stores its abbreviated, relatively distorted ...
Attending the premiere of a Georgian film at a film festival abroad is a very exciting and unforgettable event, especially if this premiere turns out to be successful. Fortunately, I have experienced such facts many times. Two such premieres are related to film directors – Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross. So it was in 2013, at the Berlinale, when the first screening of the film "Long Bright Days" was followed by a film award and many international film festivals...
It is a common occurrence in cinema when directors cast non-professional actors in their films. In some cases, it can be their way of working and sometimes - they simply see in them the physical manifestation of a character created in the mind. Often, along with the success of the film, these actors also remain in the history of cinema, because of the roles they played. Such a future can be predicted for Makho (Babu) Khutsishvili, who played the main role ...
The time when the release of a new Georgian film was a special event is long gone. Starting from Tbilisi, where there used to be more than twenty cinemas ending with the highland villages, where there was a mobile cinema set, which was carried by car (and in heavy snow – by cart) to the waiting audience. Today, the premiere of a new film will be shown successfully in any of the few capital's cinema halls, it will go around foreign film festival screens...
There are topics that filmmakers have been applying since their origins, which many might even call banal. Many films have been made about them. These are – lack of relationship, constant quest for one's own "I," misunderstandings, scandals. This is what society faces every day, and sometimes its members don't even notice what people stop valuing and when they lose ...
Love is not an eternal feeling. It fades with time and gets lost in the swamp of family problems. Sometimes people try to save the relationship, but sometimes all the efforts end in failure. And still, what is love or what is it like? Perhaps, the character of Eldar Shengelaya's film "The Eccentrics," Khristofore Mgaloblishvili would say in its defense that love is vertical and rotating, but sometimes it is not like that at all. It is eternal longing or one big disappointment. Sometimes it looks like ...
Big ambitions, large-scale projects, rural people, government missteps and endless waiting. Nino Orjonikidze and Vano Arsenishvili's full-length documentary, “A Tunnel” (2019), demonstrates clear evidence that there is no light at the end of the tunnel. The film reflects the never-ending cycle of construction of the Moliti railway station in Kharagauli district. This large-scale and pompous project of the government and Georgian Railways changes ...