Films based on real events are especially popular with viewers. People are much more interested in the world saved by Superman single-handedly, not the feat of a real person, a person who did not give up in a difficult moment and followed his goal to the end, so making films based on true stories is becoming more and more relevant, which is very good. Such films provide an opportunity to look at events in a new way and evaluate them with different eyes, which...
Cinema loves cities where either nothing happens or everything happens. For the French, Paris has always been like that. For American cinema, one of these is New York, and for modern Georgian cinema of the recent period, Chiatura has become such a source of inspiration, a town where the rich should live, although it resembles Orwell's world. Chiatura is as inexhaustible as its ore with its topics and problems, which is why directors try to find important, interesting ...
Tamta Melashvili's "Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry" was recognized in literary circles as the best Georgian novel in 2020. This fact received mixed reviews from critics and society. Part of the public was delighted with the work largely appreciating the author's courage and attempt to bring taboo topics to light in Georgia, talking about women's problems from an angle that is only discussed behind the scenes. Some accused the author of stereotypical thinking. Despite the mixed attitude, the fact is that Tamta Melashvili's work turned out to be so relevant that shortly after its publication, Elene Naveriani revived Etero’s image in the cinema. The character of the film...
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...
In Georgian (and probably in any) society, public either lives according to traditionally established stereotypes, or asks others to live like that or – asks both together – themselves and others too. And the "violators" of the "universal" order either deserve to be scolded and reproached, or they are misunderstood and become objects of active (pseudo-liberal) teaching. Such methods of upbringing seem to have a non-severe, non-aggressive...
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Zurab Iobashvili's short documentary film, "Where the Moon Rises" (2021) is a form of documentary television portrait and reportage, in which the main hero is not only an action figure, but also a narrator. Television film has a great role in the history of Georgian cinema. Even now, offering new material to the audience often occurs according to these traditions, although the film, which should create a portrait, faces many challenges, providing Georgian documentary cinema technically and...
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 ...
Religious-philosophical ideas about destiny have always been the subject of judgment both in works of art and in philosophers’ thinking. According to Niccolò Machiavelli: "Fortune determines one half of our actions, but that, even so, it leaves us to control the other half or thereabouts." In mythology, fate plays an important role in disposing the lives of gods and mortals. It is impossible to have one true opinion on this. Actually, only destiny plays...
On a calm and peaceful spring morning, when nothing disturbs the comfort and a new bright day begins, the old peasant with a deep-wrinkled face, along with his grand-daughter in an old boat will approach the uninhabited small island in the river bed – the "no man's land." Upon coming ashore, the man tastes the soil, stirs it with his fingers and finds a mouthpiece buried in the mud. It is left by someone. Along with the household items, the girl brings a rag doll and places it with her other personal belongings. This is how Giorgi Ovashvili's second film of "Abkhaz Trilogy" "Corn Island" begins (2014, co-production of Georgia, ...
If we review Georgian cinema (and not only), the vast majority of films are created for the audience to have fun, to relax during the short period of time they are watching the screen and to stop thinking about reality. However, cinema is not only an entertainment but an educational means as well. No other genre of art has such a strong influence on shaping the artistic taste of youth as cinema does. As the most democratic public art, it has a strong power...