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

What is a profession? Fulfilling a childhood dream or making a rational choice in adulthood? The most frequently asked question for a kindergarten child or school-age teenager concerns a profession. Young people often dream of becoming a doctor, an actor, an astronaut, even a pilot, although there are professions that remain beyond the interest of not only children, but also adults. Such professions are no less important. Without them, our everyday life would be...

FORGOTTEN PROFESSION Read More

A person, who is a victim of loneliness and inner emptiness often becomes a prisoner of himself, erects artificial barriers around himself and consciously or unconsciously alienates everyone and everything in order to protect the subconscious from potential danger. Nevertheless, such individuals are in dire need of self-healing and often receive help from where they least expect it. This...

ETERNAL QUEST Read More

There comes a moment in every person’s life when they lose the ability to face great hopelessness, disappointment, and setbacks. At such times, we make decisions that we are not proud of. Often we justify this by saying that we are in trouble, “that’s what life brings,” and so on. At some point, such a gap appears among people that it is difficult to recognize who is right. Is everything in the world divided into good and bad? Gvantsa Sutidze’s student film, “The Murder”...

UNAVAILING PROMISE Read More

Street vendors are those people whose work is as much invisible as it is visible. It is visible since they seem to be an integral detail of the exterior of streets and cities. Invisibility also stems precisely from the faded images of this daily encounter and the possibility of seeing, to which the eye is somewhat accustomed, the physical body will pass by or purchase the daily necessary products, just...

VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE Read More

Decades ago, paintings were found on the walls of a cave on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Using the latest technologies, it was revealed that the paintings were created 51,200 years ago and are the oldest works of narrative art ever discovered. According to researchers, such paintings had great importance for early Homo sapiens. The walls depict a scene of a boar hunt – so was declared in one of the world's articles on...

 YOU ARE INVITED TOO  Read More

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...

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