Religious-philosophical ideas about destiny have always been the subject of judgment both in works of art and in philosophers’ thinking. According to Niccolò Machiavelli: "Fortune determines one half of our actions, but that, even so, it leaves us to control the other half or thereabouts." In mythology, fate plays an important role in disposing the lives of gods and mortals. It is impossible to have one true opinion on this. Actually, only destiny plays...
On a calm and peaceful spring morning, when nothing disturbs the comfort and a new bright day begins, the old peasant with a deep-wrinkled face, along with his grand-daughter in an old boat will approach the uninhabited small island in the river bed – the "no man's land." Upon coming ashore, the man tastes the soil, stirs it with his fingers and finds a mouthpiece buried in the mud. It is left by someone. Along with the household items, the girl brings a rag doll and places it with her other personal belongings. This is how Giorgi Ovashvili's second film of "Abkhaz Trilogy" "Corn Island" begins (2014, co-production of Georgia, ...
If we review Georgian cinema (and not only), the vast majority of films are created for the audience to have fun, to relax during the short period of time they are watching the screen and to stop thinking about reality. However, cinema is not only an entertainment but an educational means as well. No other genre of art has such a strong influence on shaping the artistic taste of youth as cinema does. As the most democratic public art, it has a strong power...
No matter how many conditions of dramatic unexpectedness there are, no matter how many times we try to introduce an incredible twist in the usual, narrative rhythm of cinema, it will still be a reaction every time, depending on the meaning of the content of what happened, and not just a desire to ask the question "What happened?"... However, this question is the very first thing that embodies the reaction of the audience who is surprised and traumatized with unexpectedness. "10:45" (2021) – this is the title of Giorgi ...
One clerk (bureaucrat) suddenly sneezed while he was at an opera performance. The splashes reached an elderly bald man sitting in front of him. The clerk took it to heart much because he recognized the official and apologized to him many times. Then, he made a special visit and asked to forgive. The bored old man (who was not the clerk's immediate superior) finally answered rudely. The clerk suffered greatly from this situation and died "suddenly." This is the synopsis of Anton Chekhov's short and very famous story, “The Death ...
Documentary film directors and their interest are surely attracted to numerous disasters and misfortunes, uninvestigated cases that remained an unrecognized event. Quest for truth requires a completely different documentary style and narrative form and a film about an unknown disaster aims at seeing the result of imagination and reality. TV and movie viewers have become accustomed to the...
Senility with its inevitable hardships is an eternal topic that is touched upon quite often in the cinema and there are a number of cinematic masterpieces, which is why creating a new work on a similar topic is quite risky, even if the film is made well, the magnitude of the problem affects almost all viewers, therefore, it becomes more debatable. Tornike Bziava's film, "The...
The goodness of Georgian documentary cinema and the deep vision of things and everything existing today are probably as much needed for modernity as hope. The hope not for a better future, but the fact that real life is born and grows only in the smallest, sincere seed of a dream. Still under the conditions of Soviet ideology, Georgian documentary cinema covered various, unexpected areas of search and discovery, which determined its diverse topics. This legacy dictates a certain tradition with the works of Merab Kokochashvili, Guram Pataraia, Gela Kandelaki, Gogi...
A parent is a person who should always be by the child's side. The world is very harsh on those people who are brought up by only a mother or a father. They often have an inferiority complex, they feel as if they are not sufficient for others. This problem worsens over time and creates a void. People try to fill this void through their lifetime. The short film "Father" (2015) directed by Data Pirtskhalava has two main characters: Lado and Nika. They have been growing up without a father for a long time. Five years later, the father knocks on their door,...
Abkhazia might be the most tragic and still unresolved part of the recent history of Georgia, it is a problem, both itself and its consequences. Along with the social or political aspect, it remains one of the main and contemporary topics in Georgian art. The young people (the generation that did not directly witness the war in Abkhazia) are interested in the problem of Abkhazia, its lost territories and, in general, the fate of people related to it in various ways,...