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.
It is increasingly rare in modern cinema to find works that not only tell a story but also confront the viewer with real problems. Mevlud Sabashvili's film, “Dividing Line” (2025) belongs to such a series of works. It deals with a topic that is painful, topical and often concealed. As a social and personal tragedy, domestic violence is not just a plot line here, it is a reality that defines many women’s everyday life. The film offers us not only the presentation ...
The authors seem to use this entire plot line as that of Hitchcock’s MacGuffin to pique the audience's interest, raise tension, and develop the action, although it is not compensated for at the expense of other elements. In this form, it fails to play MacGuffin’s role and appears more like a story hole. The mass audience generally does not like open endings, and such an "open" one - even more so....
This film is the director's first feature film, and like most student films, it certainly doesn't stand out in terms of technical strength, which is noticeable even to the naked eye, although it is clear that all this should be a sign of motivation and progress for the director, and it might be in future....
