MODERN FAMILY

Cinema has always been a powerful tool for highlighting and discussing social issues. Film allows us to see our lives from a different perspective. One of the main tasks of directors is to entertain the audience as well as to understand the importance of solving social problems, and, in many cases, they do this in an interesting way in short films. To convey their message, authors do not need a lot of money, famous actors or weepy film music; a well-developed visual ...

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WHERE IS HAPPINESS?

Primitive society lived in harmony with nature. People created, collected and built all necessities themselves. They survived on fishing and farming, provided life with each other’s help. At that time, the concept of property did not exist yet. Then the introduction of trade and money radically changed the structure of society. Money formed rich and poor classes. The concept of property also appeared, and this is where the problems began. Nino, a character in Nutsa Aleksi-Meskhishvili's film "Line of Credit" (2014), tries to solve financial problems by taking out a ...

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FROM DRUG TO DRUG

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 ...

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