What kind of feeling arises when we have to take the first serious step? It is nice and scary, causing keen interest at the same time as well as the feeling of pride that you are so big that can cope with being in the large house alone. You are able and you should care for the people around you. At this time, you seem to stand upright, gain height and self-confidence and realize that you are already an adult. Sandro Suladze's short feature film "The Watchers" (2021) is about the inexhaustible fantasy, wild imagination, ascetic ...

FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH ADULTHOOD Read More

"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...

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATURE AND MAN Read More

In many cases, the director captures what worries him, what he has seen or experienced, he fills the film with personal details and never shies away from subjectivity. Luka Kopaleishvili's student documentary, "A Little Bit About My Father" (2022), is clearly a personal work, where the author tells us about his father. Definitely, this is a subjective work, the story of the director's family – a difficult, sad but interesting situation in which he lives. The director's father becomes the main protagonist, however, the film does not leave the feeling that the author is only telling his own story. It is already clear from...

WHY ISN'T LIFE AS SWEET AS CHOCOLATE?! Read More

Big ambitions, large-scale projects, rural people, government missteps and endless waiting. Nino Orjonikidze and Vano Arsenishvili's full-length documentary, “A Tunnel” (2019), demonstrates clear evidence that there is no light at the end of the tunnel. The film reflects the never-ending cycle of construction of the Moliti railway station in Kharagauli district. This large-scale and pompous project of the government and Georgian Railways changes ...

KHARAGAULI WAITING FOR GODOT Read More