FADED LOVE

Barbare Kalaijishvili, ოქტომბერი 2023, Professional Film /

Love is not an eternal feeling. It fades with time and gets lost in the swamp of family problems. Sometimes people try to save the relationship, but sometimes all the efforts end in failure. And still, what is love or what is it like? Perhaps, the character of Eldar Shengelaya's film "The Eccentrics," Khristofore Mgaloblishvili would say in its defense that love is vertical and rotating, but sometimes it is not like that at all. It is eternal longing or one big disappointment. Sometimes it looks like ...

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KHARAGAULI WAITING FOR GODOT

Eva Gvritishvili, ოქტომბერი 2023, Professional Film /

Big ambitions, large-scale projects, rural people, government missteps and endless waiting. Nino Orjonikidze and Vano Arsenishvili's full-length documentary, “A Tunnel” (2019), demonstrates clear evidence that there is no light at the end of the tunnel. The film reflects the never-ending cycle of construction of the Moliti railway station in Kharagauli district. This large-scale and pompous project of the government and Georgian Railways changes ...

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JOURNEY IN THE DARK

Eka Kukhalashvili, ოქტომბერი 2023, Professional Film /

  "The Criminal Man" is the name of Dimitri Mamulia's film, which was shot in 2019. The director already sets the mood and anticipation with this title. The main character is identified and vilified by the author. In the fight between good and evil, the side is certain. It is clear for the audience from the beginning who they will be dealing with. They do not have to wait long to meet evil. The film begins with a murder episode, witnessed by the main character Giorgi ...

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OASIS ON THE LANDFILL

ოქტომბერი 2023, Professional Film, Saba Makharashvili /

“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, ...

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THE HOUSE IN WHICH THE WAR CONTINUES

2023 year, Teona Vekua, ოქტომბერი 2023, Professional Film /

Creating films about war started from the very origins of cinema. Different generations of filmmakers have brought to the screen the devastating consequences of senseless bloodshed to remind us that there are no winners in war. The topic of war is already shown from all sides, both inside and outside, but all wars end sooner or later and the question inevitably arises, what happens next? Sure, a peaceful life but what would it look like? ...

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I DO NOT BELEIVE 

2023 year, Manana Lekborashvili, ოქტომბერი 2023, Professional Film /

I will start with not an original question - according to what do we evaluate the film in general, what do we pay the most attention to: "what" or "how?” If to "what" - then "Wet Sand" (2021) by Elene Naveriani is a wonderful film, with an acute problem, which today has become a leading trend not only in the world, but also in Georgian cinema, despite the fact that society still closes its eyes to it and does not enjoy talking about it much. The gravity of difference...

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TBILISI-BRIGHTON

2023 year, Professional Film, September 2023, Ketevan Pataraia /

It's good when a filmmaker makes a film along with like-minded people. In Levan Koguashvili’s case, like-minded to him, first of all, is Boris Frumin – director, screenwriter, producer, teacher, who taught him film directing in his master's degree at the Tisch School of Art of New York University. Frumin is the co-author of Koguashvili's film scripts: "Street Days" (2010), "Blind Dates" (2013) and the screenwriter of the film, "Brighton 4th" (2021). Koguashvili has another like-minded person, Kote Japaridze, who ...

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PEOPLE LOST IN SEARCH OF EQUALITY 

2023 year, Maya Levanidze, Professional Film, September 2023 /

Under the conditions of the existence of the Soviet government, censorship and ideological pressure, documentary cinema became a passive attester of reality, although in this routine, monotonous process of development there were stages when it tried to state the author's vision and citizen's positions. It can be said that the 1920s and 1960s are the stages of the rise of Georgian documentary cinema....

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FROM FEAR TO "SCARY MOTHER"

2023 year, Nana Tutberidze, Professional Film, September 2023 /

The first films are a statement to establish oneself in great cinema. At first, it is difficult to determine how independent an artist is. Film director Ana Urushadze is one of the lucky exceptions, and her first full-length feature film "Scary Mother" (2017) stands out from the filmmakers of her generation in terms of its range of interests and artistic value. It tells a seemingly simple story: the mother of the family, housewife Manana (Nato Murvanidze) is working

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A Simple Story of Loneliness that Disappeared Somewhere

2023 year, Professional Film, September 2023, Ketevan Trapaidze /

Is there such an interpretation of disagreements between generations in Georgian art, in particular, dramaturgy, cinema, as Gertrude Stein's search for the explanation of the creative realities and psychotypes of the "lost generation"? This is still controversial and will probably take decades but it is clear that more than (or already) 30 years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet system and the somewhat illusory vision of the "lost generation"

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