Alienation in the family is a familiar topic for Georgian cinema. Guram Bakradze's student film, "Dad" (2014) also deals with this topic. It is worth noting that the director told us this problem succinctly, sequentially but without many question marks. The work is devoid of useless details and the attention is focused only on those moments that the director needed for a specific purpose. There are only three main characters in the film, who represent the typical images of Georgian society. The dad, Gurami (Davit Bakhtadze) is burdened with responsibilities. There is a long distance between...

WHAT IS DAD SCARED OF? Read More

Life is a strange thing. You never know what to expect from it. Sometimes you have the feeling that someone is watching your daily life and creates a problem for you at the very moment when you least expect it and when you are least ready to repel; when you think that you are already at peace and the mistakes made in your previous life will no longer affect you; when you think that those people, their pain, your guilt, shame, regret, what happened before, are forever in the...

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In modern auteur cinema there are several specific signs that even young directors apply and often they do it not because a film needs it but because a specific standard has been created and this standard must be taken into account “by all means.” Thus, it is a frequent imitation in films. On the one hand, imitation is a process of learning and development, however, it becomes a...

IMITATION – AID OR HINDERING FACTOR NEEDS 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

Being human means being a merciless, cruel, selfish creature, who will always put self and personal interests before anything else in any situation or condition. This cruelty does not necessarily mean any kind of violence, but simply indifference, even inaction. When a person is an artist and is in a creative crisis, it should not cause surprise in others if his indifference is turned into cruelty and he has emotionless attitude towards circumstances, and perception and observation ...

LIFE SACRIFICED TO PERSONAL INTERESTS Read More

Screenings have always attracted viewers’ attention and are still very popular among movie audiences. This is logical – people are interested how directors will be able to portray their favorite novels, stories, characters' adventures on the screen. Based on such high expectations among the audience, of course, even greater responsibility falls on the director and his film crew, since there is more criticism of the film from the public and it is to be expected. The risk is high, and the chance that the director will fail to live up to the audience’s expectations ...

THAT INVISIBLE FORCE WHICH CONTROLS US Read More