Is "The Martyrdom of Shushanik" a family drama? Probably not, but Manana's life really looked like a family drama in the movie "My Happy Family" (2017, directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß), which is an example of broken love. It follows the stages that couples who do not live alone have to go through. When a third person interferes in the relationship between husband and wife, everything gets mixed up and looks like chaos, and there is no way out of chaos, and thus the love that once connected them...

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In 2006, the film director Ilo Ghlonti presented the audience a short film "Five Variations" which was a great success. Shot with a subjective camera, this work tells one family’s adventures as seen by five characters. It is true that during the existence of cinema, many films have been created on this principle, including great directors. For example, the Japanese Akira Kurosawa's film “Rashomon” (1950) was the first to appeal to a new vision (a story seen differently by several people, thus subverting established film dramaturgy). As far as is known, there was no similar precedent in Georgian cinema.

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