We often encounter an artist’s attempt in modern student cinema, when he tries to say no to traditional storyline and present the viewer not with a particular story but with a pure emotional state. Such works are mainly built on silence, where words are superfluous and thought is formed only through visual plasticity, observation of the environment and the revival of symbolic signs. It is often difficult to draw the line between reality and metaphor since the director does not aim at building a logical chain but to awaken those primal ...

საზოგადოებრივი აზრი და ოჯახური მენტალიტეტი ყოველთვის იყო, არის და იქნება, მეტნაკლებად, პიროვნების ჩამოყალიბების განმსაზღვრელი ფაქტორი, განსაკუთრებით ისეთ საზოგადოებაში, რომლისათვისაც მნიშვნელოვანია კონსერვატორული ღირებულებებისადმი მიჯაჭვულობა, როგორიც არის ტრადიციული ოჯახური, კულტურული და რელიგიური წესების დაცვა. ასეთ საზოგადოებაში, გარდა იმისა, რომ სკრუპულოზური მიდგომით იცავს ამ წესებს, მნიშვნელოვან როლს ასრულებს ის, თუ რას იტყვიან მასზე, როგორ შეაფასებენ და განსჯიან მის

Poetic cinema is a cinematic approach and style that focuses on the use of visual aesthetics, emotional resonance and symbolism rather than the rational logic of narrative. It tries to create on screen a feeling that is close to the feeling one gets when reading or listening to poetry, where the content is often conveyed through metaphors and associations rather than a clear plot line. The essence of poetic cinema is that it places image above narrative. It is a cinema where metaphor, allegory, intense symbolism, atmosphere, rhythm and mood play a central role. As a poet, the director uses camera, editing, sound ...

Any documentary or feature film shows a clear incompatibility between individual potential and social reality when it presents the figure of a little boy, a child who grows up in rural poverty and hardship but has a big, unfulfilled dream in his heart. Many young people face this dilemma. Here, aspirations, dreams, and goals confront limited financial and material resources. This social problem is global and shows inequality of opportunities, where the place of birth and economic status decide a person’s future. The main problem lies in the lack of mobility within society in such cases. A person’s dream (be it science, art, or any other aspiration) requires appropriate resources: quality education, technological accessibility and proximity to development centers. Living in poverty itself implies a lack of these fundamental ...

A grandmother is the warmest memory in a person's life. A voice that comes from the past and comforts the future. A person who has known you longer than you have known this world. It is interesting that each grandmother had her own story, each lived their lives differently and became a sweet memory in the end. It is this path that makes a person who they are. In the village of Utsera in Racha region, there is a house with a beautiful yard. A grandmother, a warm, loving and painful adventurer lives here. It is about this woman ...

The unique ability of animation to convey a person’s inner world in a surreal way lies in its complete freedom to ignore all the laws of physics and logic, which feature film can never achieve. This medium becomes a direct window into the subconscious where emotions, fears and thoughts are not only described but also materialized on the screen. Surreal animation allows objects and environments to change shape and content instantly and illogically, thus directly letting the image follow the flow of the character's thoughts. For example, during times of deep anxiety, objects ...

Society is often harmful as a systematic, uniform, rigid structure because it kills people’ s opportunity even in their childhood to express their free innate inner nature and accustoms them to obey imposed strict rules, to combine predetermined roles, teaches them who they should be, what they should love and how to live their short lives. Vazha-Pshavela wrote: “A person is born free. Look at a child how freely he acts when he can move, he touches everything that his eye and ear can reach; he moves his arms and legs when his mother puts him in the cradle and puts bands on his hands. Only the thought ...

Tskaltubo balneological spa resort has been one of the most distinguished resorts for years with its diverse and unique sanatoriums and has treated many diseased people. These buildings lost their original function after the Abkhazian war and became a shelter for war-torn, suffering and sad displaced people. Although they could no longer fulfill their original, healing function, a good deed once again took up residence within their walls. These monumental, already mystical buildings served many displaced people for almost 30 years. Director Giorgi Kvelidze’s documentary film, “On the Way Home” (2024), tells t...

A person often becomes a victim of his own thoughts and obsessions. Our nature is not stable enough to be free to tolerate conditions that are unpleasant for him. Frequently, simple things play on our nerves so much that we are surprised how a person can endure great pressure and pain in life, when the smallest details drive him crazy?! Or, in general, should a person be able to endure all this when we can be symbiotic creatures and help each other although it has never been so easy and might not ever be. Everyday life, routine, problems still manage to affect mental health and shake our psyche. Shota Meskhadze's student film, “Common Wall” (2020) explores...

A particularly important place in a person’s life is full of those emotions that most often are killed within themselves – be it envy, regret, doubt or something else. At the same time, they are precisely such intense emotions that allow a person to see his own actions from a broader, more generalized perspective and then find himself facing a dilemma. Split personality, the struggle with his own identity and just the study of the foundations of man have been issues around which cinema has revolved since time immemorial. Examples of this are Bergman’s dreamlike “Persona” ...