In recent years, Georgian feature and documentary film, along with many other topics, has been characterized by the presentation of real life, political circumstances, and social reality in various forms and perspectives, including by placing it within the framework of a parable and searching for new means of expression. In modern film parables, traditional schemes and laws are violated, stereotypes are rejected; a generalized environment is created, the real boundaries of the world and everything in such a conditional connection are conveyed ...

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The name – Tato Kotetishvili – first was heard loudly in Georgian cinema in 1987, when then a young director made his first full-length feature film, “Anemia.” And the second time, it also happened loudly quite recently, in 2024, also in connection with the young director’s first full-length film, “Holy Electricity.” The second is the nephew of the first one, who made the film world, both in Georgia and around it (like his uncle in his time), talk about the new Georgian cinema and Georgia...

THE DAZZLING ATTRACTION OF HOLY ELECTRICITYl Read More

Since the early post-Soviet years till today, Dominant in Georgian cinema has been the trend reflecting the reality of life, political circumstances, social and economic reality and, consequently, in society, in most cases, among young people, the lack of prospects, the breakdown of relationships, the issues of confrontation and conflict between parents and children, people of different classes and generations, beliefs, orientations, interests, and their discussions...

DANGEROUS AND SAFE DATES Read More

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...

UNIVERSAL ILLUSION OF HAPPINESS AND REAL PERSONAL HAPPINESS Read More

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, ...

THE ISLAND ON THE BORDER OF WAR AND PEACE Read More

One clerk (bureaucrat) suddenly sneezed while he was at an opera performance. The splashes reached an elderly bald man sitting in front of him. The clerk took it to heart much because he recognized the official and apologized to him many times. Then, he made a special visit and asked to forgive. The bored old man (who was not the clerk's immediate superior) finally answered rudely. The clerk suffered greatly from this situation and died "suddenly." This is the synopsis of Anton Chekhov's short and very famous story, “The Death ...

WHY DO CIVIL SERVANTS DIE? Read More

Abkhazia might be the most tragic and still unresolved part of the recent history of Georgia, it is a problem, both itself and its consequences. Along with the social or political aspect, it remains one of the main and contemporary topics in Georgian art. The young people (the generation that did not directly witness the war in Abkhazia) are interested in the problem of Abkhazia, its lost territories and, in general, the fate of people related to it in various ways,...

THE WIND BLOWING FROM ABKHAZIA TO TSKALTUBO... Read More

Georgian cinema created artistically valuable productions since its origins and therefore, its achievements never surprise us. Films, which are of special importance for Georgian culture, have become an equal part of the world cinema and have won international recognition more than once. Lana Gogoberidze’s name has long been among the "founders" of the new Georgian cinema, and her work is connected with various stages...

I IMPLORE YOU, I WON'T ASK FOR MUCH... Read More

A fable in literature and cinema is an eloquent, expressive and multi-layered form, which excludes ideological-conceptual or intentional violence on the reader/spectator and is organized without standard frameworks, strictly established norms. It breaks stereotypes, is completely distanced from them and is governed by its own internal rules. The form of the modern fable is even more free and

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In every time and period (which is determined by historical, public, economic, political and other, local or non-local, processes along with the flow of time), new stylistic and artistic searches, new forms of expression, new directions, currents begin to be formed in art. New trends, directions emerge and become established. The same is happening in the Georgian cinema of the last decade. Covering new topics and problems, showing reality in a new ...

SINCE TIME AND OCCASION RULE EVERYTHING Read More