People often make wrong decisions. They move impulsively, do not think about the conse-quences and sometimes find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then they regret and start all over again making the same mistakes. Some have the courage to begin a new life from a clean sheet, while others never let go of the past and create non-existent illusions in the hope of a beter life. Giorgi Varsimashvili's feature film "Unfulfilled Dream" (2010) is a story of unrealized love. The plot seems to be trivial. A boy is hopelessly in love with a girl, Ani. Ani has a boyfriend and lives with him. The boy...

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Salome Latsabidze's short film "The Pool" (2021) tells about a theme well known to cinema – alienation, the tense relationship between mother and daughter. Working on this topic is interesting for many, that's why almost every director's filmography contains similar work. Therefore, creating something different and memorable is not so easy. The director tried to present her film in an original way using metaphors and symbols. A young woman with her six-year-old child, Nini arrives in a resort town to meet her mother she hasn’t seen for a long. Their meeting ...

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English film documentarist, Paul Rotha, pointed out that a documentary film, first of all, should reflect today's problems and reality. Giorgi Mrevlishvili's film "Twelve Lessons" (2019) is an excellent example of this. It tells the story of Valerian Kotrikadze, a grandfather living in a village, who tries to pave the way for his autistic grandson, Vako, by developing his personal skills and overcoming difficulties so that he can integrated into society independently in the future. Many feature films have been created ...

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"Physical reality is placed in the basis of the cinema and cinema material is reality captured on film” (Siegfried Kracauer). These words once again emphasize how important it is to reflect objective reality in documentary cinema. It should be descriptive, seek an important, real problem, show and consolidate facts and bring the "real reality" to the audience. Modern Georgian documentary cinema is experiencing a clear progress, because the works of recent years are significantly...

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What is love? A sea of pain, joy, disappointment and obligation. The feeling that pulls you towards that one and tries to make you give up everything. Because of this feeling, a person will go to all compromises. Sometimes individuals make wrong decisions in a state of affect. The thirst for revenge makes their minds so tarnished that they don't care about anything anymore, they don't think about the consequences, they just stand up and do what they think is right. "What kind of shooter is he, how does he know where ...

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Mystical cinema is one of the most sought-after genres for the world cinema industry. Its production began a long time ago and is still very popular today. Every year, hundreds of such films are made in the world. Mysticism in itself implies that it should contain fictional stories with paranormal events, adventures of maniacs and murderers, etc. However, it is possible that there...

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Emptiness, the feeling that comes with pain and loneliness after the departure of a loved one. This feeling cannot go away. Neither friends nor others can replace parents. After they are gone, life becomes different, colorless, and there are no new blank pages to start all over again. When you stay alone, pains surround you, you leave your body and look at yourself from the outside. You realize that you are in chaos, there is obscurity around you and there is no way out of it. You have only two choices: ...

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Khatuna Vashadze's debut film, "Bullet" (2022) is quite eloquent and memorable, which leaves the audience with something to think about. It shows a cruel world where one unintentional action can destroy an entire life. When a little boy on a picnic is hit by a blind bullet, a happy family life is destroyed, a once ideal existence turns into torture. The father is trying to somehow save the family, the mother is mourning, the police are powerless, there are no witnesses, there is nothing to do, and the case is closed in a few months. The father will have to find...

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Different branches of art have their expressive means. Painting uses visual forms, literature uses words, and cinema uses both (and, of course, many more). It is interesting to observe how the same message, topic, is transferred from one field of art to another or how a work of one field becomes an inspiration for a work of another (and sometimes third) field of art. Such is Niko Pirosmani's painting, "Kakhetian Train," which first became the basis for Archil Kikodze's story of the same name, and then this story became a film directed by Lali ...

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