Time passes quickly and destroys everything slowly. It is like a train that you have to chase. Those who cannot catch up are lost and cannot continue living. This pace is faster for artists. They always try to find something new and to interest society again. What happens when life does not go according to their wishes and when swimming against the current stops? After several attempts to survive, everyone gives up and follows the current of the river. People give up and stop developing. How difficult it is to watch a person who has given up, from whom even the last part of the moss he

UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN Read More

People experience love shortage. They spend their entire lives in quest of their other half - sometimes they find it, sometimes they don't. When a relationship goes into a dead end, there begins the process of looking for the culprit within themselves but seldom is only one party to blame for the split up. The problem is that mistakes are often not corrected - they are only repeated, and this ...

EPITAPH TO LOVE: THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF LOVE - MODERN TRAGEDY Read More

People look down on each other. They do not speak out about the injustice around them and continue to live in their shells until cracks appear in their housing and they have to go out. Society gives excessive importance to officials. They do not understand that officials are also ordinary people who have found themselves at a relatively high hierarchical level. Mikheil Gabaidze's film, "Vasomotor Rhinitis" (2024) is neither a comedy nor a tragicomedy. It is a sharp social satire that criticizes the indifference and hierarchical structure of society. The film is not just a mirror of ...

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN 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 war took everything from people – freedom, a feeling of peace, a sense of security, relationships. No one had any hope of continuing their lives. There was no goal in sight. Everyone was wandering aimlessly, trying to find a way to survive somewhere. Tomorrow would either come or not. The history of Georgia was divided into two parts. Life before and after the August 2008 war. People learned how to live anew. Along with other emotions, a new feeling emerged – expectation. They were ...

LIFE AFTER THE WAR Read More

Society has a hard time accepting different people. They try to make you like them and make you have nothing special, they don’t accept new things, they drown in a world full of dogmas and shackles that they suffocate. Monotony is like a noose around their necks and they can’t breathe. If they notice that you’re not like them, they scold you and don’t hesitate to throw stones at you. This is not just a Georgian problem, it’s the same in other countries too. It’s...

THE PLACEBO EFFECT Read More

Life in the 1990s was a painful time for everyone. People had to fight for survival every day. During that period, they learned both to ignore and help each other. If they hadn't had each other and hadn't been in groups, they mightn't have survived in that chaotic world. It was the division into groups and parties that led to the war, in which many people died. One of the reasons...

A GAME WITHOUT RULES Read More

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,...

EMPTY SPACE Read More

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...

WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED? Read More

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 ...

THE LAST KISS Read More