Tobacco smoking is a serious health hazard that causes lung disease, cardiovascular problems and cancer. Nicotine and other toxic substances cause addiction, which makes it difficult to quit. Nevertheless, many people continue to smoke to relieve stress or for other purposes. Public health programs are trying to raise awareness and reduce smoking. Creating a film script dedicated to such a global problem is a simple but not very new and creative task. From the very beginning, cinema has been the best tool for propaganda but in order for ...

CINEMA – WEAPON FOR PROPAGANDA Read More

Cinema has always been a powerful tool for highlighting and discussing social issues. Film allows us to see our lives from a different perspective. One of the main tasks of directors is to entertain the audience as well as to understand the importance of solving social problems, and, in many cases, they do this in an interesting way in short films. To convey their message, authors do not need a lot of money, famous actors or weepy film music; a well-developed visual ...

MODERN FAMILY Read More

Primitive society lived in harmony with nature. People created, collected and built all necessities themselves. They survived on fishing and farming, provided life with each other’s help. At that time, the concept of property did not exist yet. Then the introduction of trade and money radically changed the structure of society. Money formed rich and poor classes. The concept of property also appeared, and this is where the problems began. Nino, a character in Nutsa Aleksi-Meskhishvili's film "Line of Credit" (2014), tries to solve financial problems by taking out a ...

WHERE IS HAPPINESS? Read More

The pain of the 1990s remains an unhealed wound in the history of Georgia till today, the time when a front opened in Tbilisi and fellow citizens shot each other. As they would have said then, it was a “fratricidal war.” During this period, an entire generation was formed, for whom the street and its “academy” were more valuable than the law or morality. There was complete chaos in the country, where there were both foes and friends who would worry for each other. In this regard, the Georgian philosopher Merab Mamardashvili said, the price of this war is enormous ...

FROM DRUG TO DRUG Read More

If we apperceive the main idea of the literary work “The World as Will and Representation” by the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, we will understand that these two concepts are the basis of the essence of the human race, its insatiable desire and natural aspiration for life. Therefore, any obstacle that an individual faces can be overcome if there is a motive and desire, of course. Otherwise, it sinks into absurdity and complete meaninglessness ...

THE STRUGGLE FOR ACQUIRING MEANING Read More

  Human isolation has its own language – a form of dialogue between the mind and the outside world, both silent and destructively noisy, suffocating for human identity. Salome Vepkhvadze’s student film, “Me, They and Daddy” (2014), skillfully addresses this language and draws the viewer into the main characters', a 12-year-old girl and her mentally ill father. The film won the main award for best foreign language...

SILENT HEALER Read More

  One of the outstanding representatives of the 20th century creative field, David Bowie, often connected his work with spirituality and the concept of the existence of God. He even mentioned in a 1997 interview that the search for God is one of the main components for making life a living. It is with this genius musician’s famous song, “Space Oddity,” that Giorgi Psitidze’s student film, “A4 God is at Work” (2022) begins. We hear the first strum of the guitar and simultaneously see views of Tbilisi. With faded colors and the non-static nature of the camera, we get ...

AND GOD LABOURED ON THE SEVENT DAY TOO Read More

  Each person has different dreams, desires and goals. Regrettable is the life of a person who has none of them and strives only for satisfying natural needs. Such people, in fact, do not even think about the comfort and rights of others and sometimes violate them indirectly or explicitly. Anyone can become their victim today, tomorrow or even at the end of the week. Archil Sichinava's student film, "Sunday" (2016), tells the story of just such people. It describes events in four people’s lives, which unfold on one day, judging by the title, Sunday. You will not find any kind of dialogue ...

THE GIRL BY THE LAKE Read More

  True art brings not only aesthetic pleasure. It can sometimes save a person’s life and has the power to strengthen human relationships. People often lose faith and hope for survival and it is at this time when a person who is their savior appears in their lives and he often sacrifices himself to save someone else, as if it were his life’s duty. Giorgi Chakhvadze’s student film, “The Last Leaf” (2018) is an adaptation of O. Henry’s story of the same name, which is not at all easy because the director and screenwriter are obliged not to grossly change the writer’s idea and, at the...

WHAT WOULD O. HENRY HIMSELF SAY? Read More