Tinatin Emiridze’s documentary, “Fog Curtain” (2019), tells the story of the Khulo State Drama Theater. More precisely, this film is more of a description than a narrative and its main problem might lie just in this. Before the director’s idea reaches the audience, it has to go through foggy landscapes (which occupy a fairly large part), the abundance of characters from the very first minute and the confusion caused by getting to know them from afar, unexpected changes in the plot and many other factors, as a result of which it reaches in a quite foggy manner those on the other side of the screen and does not leave any impression. In the first part, the depiction of the snow-covered nature of Khulo...

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The quest for comfort and an aspiration for something better is fitted tightly in human nature. Usually, when an individual in a dead end cannot break through the walls, he frantically fumbles for openings instead of giving in to complete despair - he might notice the empty spaces that life has failed to fill, and he finds himself on the other side of the wall by stepping on them and clinging to the last dream that has been woven into a thread. America is not called the “Land of Dreams” ...

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