For the first time in the history of Georgian film, the portal of Georgian film criticism.
The project is funded by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth of Georgia.
Overview of Georgian Film
The platform Georgian Film Review is dedicated to an overview of modern Georgian film, its
features, trends, major aspects, and new movies; however, the reader will also find some materials from the history of Georgian film and also the best reviews developed in the early years by the film critics of the older generation.
Professional and student film critics are involved in the working process of the website, whose analytical articles regarding Georgian professional and student feature, documentary, and animated films will greatly contribute to the refinement and development of our film criticism as well as the popularization of the Georgian national film.
The website is bilingual, in Georgian and English, in order to provide desirable and proper information for both local and international movie fans.
თანამედროვე ქართული კინო ხშირად ადამიანის შინაგან მარტოობას, ტკივილსა და უხილავ ტრავმებს იკვლევს. განსაკუთრებით ეს ტენდენცია ახალგაზრდა რეჟისორებში შეიმჩნევა. ისინი გაბედულად მცირე ბიუჯეტით, პირადულ ამბებზე დაფუძნებული ნარატივებით ცდილობენ ემოციური თემების გადმოცემას. …
Poverty is a terrible thing, it penetrates straight into your soul and deprives you of your humanity with such slow agony that you no longer recognize yourself. You don’t know why you step out of a warm room into a frozen city. The gloomy days that have turned into a sad routine become so acceptable that you forget what a good life is. People walking here and there on the tired streets of Tbilisi sometimes don’t even listen, they just pass by the extended hand of help with great regret. Everyone is in a hurry going somewhere, everyone is running somewhere, and no one has time ...
Ivane Begiashvili's student film, "Dialogue by the Lake" (2022), based on the motifs of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story "Dialogue in the Dark," makes the process of watching it more interesting. Nonetheless, there is a feeling at the end that the film misses something and that the director deliberately left the viewer in this unusual position. This raises the question - is the story presented real or is it a tightly packed illusion? From the very first shot, a snowy road and a young man walking along it are visible. Within a few seconds, a car stops on the road, from which a man and a child get out and the impression ...
Contemporary Georgian cinema continues to actively represent important and painful events of the past century despite its thematic diversity and response to contemporary social processes. This might be explained by the fact that topics that seem to be a thing of the past at a glance, are still associated with the present. Who would have imagined that the fate of Georgia in the 2020s would have turned out in such a way that the words “repression,” “terror,” “dictatorship” would still appear in the colloquial dictionary of a modern person, and the statement “They will catch Triphon, they will catch me and they will catch you too, they will catch everyone” would also be suitable for today. An artistic person sometimes has such a developed sense of intuition that he even foresees ...
