Napoleon Bonaparte once said: “If the Earth were one big country, Istanbul would become its capital.” For Levan Akin, this ancient city is not presented as the center of the world but as one big Hades. For the Swedish director of Georgian origin, it is undeniable that Georgia and its social problems interest him very much. After all, the “warmest” welcome he received in Tbilisi during his film career ...
The pain of the 1990s remains an unhealed wound in the history of Georgia till today, the time when a front opened in Tbilisi and fellow citizens shot each other. As they would have said then, it was a “fratricidal war.” During this period, an entire generation was formed, for whom the street and its “academy” were more valuable than the law or morality. There was complete chaos in the country, where there were both foes and friends who would worry for each other. In this regard, the Georgian philosopher Merab Mamardashvili said, the price of this war is enormous ...
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 ...
The Georgian film program at the 24th Tbilisi International Festival could be said to be the weakest in the history of this festival, although there were "pearls" that stood out and provided the audience with amazing emotions. Such an exceptionally good film was Giorgi Varsimashvili and Jeanne Nouchi’s film "Hotel "Metalurg" (2023), which tells the story of the displaced people from Abkhazia staying in Hotel "Metalurg" (Tskaltubo, Georgia), for whom this building became ...
Cinema art differs from other fields as it is the most open field to everyone. Anyone, a representative of any profession can fit into the role of a director and this is a completely usual thing in the history of cinema. Franko Zeffirelli was an architect, Otar Ioseliani was a mathematician, and Christopher Nolan was a philologist of the English language. All this is explained by the fact that...
Several quite good documentaries were screened at the 24th Tbilisi International Film Festival. By the jury's decision, Giorgi Parkosadze's film "Requiem to the Hot Days of Summer" (2023) became the winner in the full-length documentary nomination. I will not hide that I was dissatisfied with such a decision. The duration of this movie is 74 minutes, but its director spared no talent and effort to make this time hellishly ...
It is a common occurrence in cinema when directors cast non-professional actors in their films. In some cases, it can be their way of working and sometimes - they simply see in them the physical manifestation of a character created in the mind. Often, along with the success of the film, these actors also remain in the history of cinema, because of the roles they played. Such a future can be predicted for Makho (Babu) Khutsishvili, who played the main role ...
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit and intelligence of citizens,“ – these words belong to the 19th century politician, Joseph Story, who defined the entire idea of the republic, which is also applicable to the 21st century commune created on the Batumi landfill. "Respublika" (2021) is a documentary film by Khvicha and Tinatin Emiridze, which shows Dato’s life, of a person who illegally settled in Batumi landfill. He is not alone. Around him, in fact, ...
რწმენის საკითხი ყოველთვის აქტუალური თემა არის კინემატოგრაფში, რადგან დროის გასვლასთან ერთად იზრდება ინტერესი მის მიმართ. მიხეილ კვირიკაძის მოკლემეტრაჟიანი ფილმი, „ნათლობა იორდანეში“ (2021, მეორე სათაური – „იესოს ჩიტი“) რელიგიურ საკითხს განსხვავებული კუთხით უდგება. რეჟისორი ფილმის სიუჟეტში მოგვითხრობს ერთ აფერისტზე, რომელიც გაქცევის შედეგად აღმოჩნდება მატარებლის ვაგონში, სადაც 7 ბავშვი იმყოფება. მათ ის მღვდელი ჰგონიათ, რადგან მამაკაცს სასულიერო …