In real life, we humans often become victims of our own emotionality, dreamy nature and naivety. Often, without thinking, we get trapped in the whirlpool of our own fantasies and forget to look at reality objectively. We are admired by things or people, and we cannot analyze to what extent the feelings we experience or convey correspond to reality. There are times when we trust those whom we do not even know, we fall in love with those whose personality and life we really have no idea about, we build towers of dreams without ...

OH, THESE DESTRUCTIVE ILLUSIONS OF OURS Read More

Alienation in the family is a familiar topic for Georgian cinema. Guram Bakradze's student film, "Dad" (2014) also deals with this topic. It is worth noting that the director told us this problem succinctly, sequentially but without many question marks. The work is devoid of useless details and the attention is focused only on those moments that the director needed for a specific purpose. There are only three main characters in the film, who represent the typical images of Georgian society. The dad, Gurami (Davit Bakhtadze) is burdened with responsibilities. There is a long distance between...

WHAT IS DAD SCARED OF? Read More

Cinema art, with its versatile means of expression, offers the director various opportunities to convey his message to the audience in one form or another. How the director will use this opportunity depends on his talent. An original vision, a distinctive style of narration, relevant topics and many other factors determine the success of the film. One of the most important roles is played by a film narrative, the story development and the film structure which maintains its...

SOCIAL STIGMA AS THREAT TO DISTINCTNESS Read More

When one loses a parent, he is orphaned, when – a spouse, he is widowed but when a child dies, it is so terrible that people have not even found a name for it. It is difficult to find an analogue of this tragedy and imagine yourself in the parent’s place. Tinatin Emiridze, with her short film "Black Sea" (2021), tries to convey to the audience the full depth and magnitude of this tragedy. This is a story about a family that tragically...

RETURN TO LIFE Read More

A prison is a place where a person’s word has no meaning. Everything is in the hands of only one person, the warden, and it is he who controls what will happen inside the walls. The weak rarely survive, the strong become watchers of the prison and are subject to the warden throughout their stay. Freedom ends at the prison door. The bars surround a person like a snake and suffocate him until he takes his last breath. Everything ...

TICKET TO EXIT JAIL Read More

The Georgian film program at the 24th Tbilisi International Festival could be said to be the weakest in the history of this festival, although there were "pearls" that stood out and provided the audience with amazing emotions. Such an exceptionally good film was Giorgi Varsimashvili and Jeanne Nouchi’s film "Hotel "Metalurg" (2023), which tells the story of the displaced people from Abkhazia staying in Hotel "Metalurg" (Tskaltubo, Georgia), for whom this building became ...

NATIVE "METALURG" Read More

Life is a strange thing. You never know what to expect from it. Sometimes you have the feeling that someone is watching your daily life and creates a problem for you at the very moment when you least expect it and when you are least ready to repel; when you think that you are already at peace and the mistakes made in your previous life will no longer affect you; when you think that those people, their pain, your guilt, shame, regret, what happened before, are forever in the...

REVENGE Read More