A prison is a place where a person’s word has no meaning. Everything is in the hands of only one person, the warden, and it is he who controls what will happen inside the walls. The weak rarely survive, the strong become watchers of the prison and are subject to the warden throughout their stay. Freedom ends at the prison door. The bars surround a person like a snake and suffocate him until he takes his last breath. Everything ...
The Georgian film program at the 24th Tbilisi International Festival could be said to be the weakest in the history of this festival, although there were "pearls" that stood out and provided the audience with amazing emotions. Such an exceptionally good film was Giorgi Varsimashvili and Jeanne Nouchi’s film "Hotel "Metalurg" (2023), which tells the story of the displaced people from Abkhazia staying in Hotel "Metalurg" (Tskaltubo, Georgia), for whom this building became ...
Life is a strange thing. You never know what to expect from it. Sometimes you have the feeling that someone is watching your daily life and creates a problem for you at the very moment when you least expect it and when you are least ready to repel; when you think that you are already at peace and the mistakes made in your previous life will no longer affect you; when you think that those people, their pain, your guilt, shame, regret, what happened before, are forever in the...
In every time and period (which is determined by historical, public, economic, political and other, local or non-local, processes along with the flow of time), new stylistic and artistic searches, new forms of expression, new directions, currents begin to be formed in art. New trends, directions emerge and become established. The same is happening in the Georgian cinema of the last decade. Covering new topics and problems, showing reality in a new ...
When directors started looking for unique techniques and authorial style to express a multifaceted idea, was the time when the fable narrative was created in cinema. Without specifying the place and time, by camouflaging, so as to reflect the images of many people in one character, not to offend anyone and to criticize everyone, at the same time. A great example of this is Tinatin Kajrishvili's film, “Citizen Saint” (2023) – a philosophical fable about faith, fear, people and their weaknesses. It reflects everything earthly and fabulous. The ...
In modern auteur cinema there are several specific signs that even young directors apply and often they do it not because a film needs it but because a specific standard has been created and this standard must be taken into account “by all means.” Thus, it is a frequent imitation in films. On the one hand, imitation is a process of learning and development, however, it becomes a...
Freedom is a state that is hard to reach. People try to be in this state throughout their lives. Sometimes they manage it, sometimes not. Often, the state structure forces individuals to exist in a difficult situation. During the period of Soviet Union, citizens were in an information vacuum and thought that everything coming from Europe was bad and unacceptable. The state turned a blind eye to people. They lived in a country where gospel and music of free country were banned. They prayed silently,...
The topic of emigration is widely discussed in cinema. This problem is constantly relevant, not only feature films, but documentaries as well are made about it. Reflecting the fears of people who are ready to leave their homeland and go in search of a better life can be shown honestly in documentary films because the person himself tells his own story, the path he has taken, brings his inner emotions to the surface, consequently, it is possible to convey...
ნოდარ მანაგაძის შემოქმედება უკვე საკმაოდ ნათლად ამჟღავნებს მის თემატურ და სტილისტურ მიდრეკილებებს. კინემატოგრაფში ნოდარ მანაგაძე მოკლემეტრაჟიანი კინოკომედიით, „საერთო კედლით“ (სცენარის ავტორი, ე. ახვლედიანი) მოვიდა და იმთავითვე მიიქცია ყურადღება კინემატოგრაფიული აზროვნების ინდივიდუალობით. შემდეგმა ფილმმა – „წუთისოფელმა“, რომელიც კინორეჟისორ შოთა მანაგაძესთან ერთად არის შექმნილი, ახალგაზრდა შემოქმედის ნიჭის კიდევ ერთი წახნაგი დაგვანახა, კერძოდ, მასშტაბური თემებისაკენ მიდრეკილება, ლირიკული ფსიქოლოგიზმის …
The documentary film made by Tinatin and Khvicha Emiridze, "Respublika" was shot in 2021, when the world was in complete pandemic lockdown and waiting for new cataclysms... However, as always, and not only then, waiting for a disaster is a usual thing, for a usual over-burdened environment. And yet, the main character of "Respublika" is an unusually thoughtful son of ...