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...
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...
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...
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 ...
No one can ignore the inevitable changes lurking on the bridge from childhood to adulthood. An invisible alienation to childhood friends appears one day and people weighed down by the pressure of adulthood, trying to find themselves under the ever-watchful eye of society, will have to look out for it. The bridge between the two shores slowly breaks down and the young people standing on it are burdened by multifaceted thoughts – nostalgia for the past...
In 2020, for the first time in the history of Georgia, the football club managed to get into the 32 best clubs of the UEFA Champions League. Lanchkhuti women's football club "Lanchkhuti" succeeded in doing so. This event became the cause of overall attention and joy. In their student documentary "Lanchkhuti" After Three Years" ...
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 ...
Fog Curtain" (2019) is Tinatin Emiridze’s short student film. When it comes to this kind of work, the director can be forgiven for some mistakes because professional experience eases him over time and his subsequent works gradually improve, although there are issues that stand out as glaring ones in this particular film. All types of cinema have their own distinct characteristics, including documentary film. There are many difficulties in working with it. First of all, it means unforeseen ...
The phenomenon of falling in love at first sight, how it changes the course of life forever, and the monotonous, unbearable existence of a person affected by the loss of this love - these are the topics that have attracted the interest of filmmakers from the beginning, and have captured the hearts of readers for centuries. It is a difficult task to create a plot and characters that will attract the attention of the audience since love plays such a conceptual, irreplaceable role in human life and readers and viewers have seen and imprinted in their minds a whole cascade of diverse stories about typical lovers.
Nikoloz Gabunia's student film "For the Motherland and Stalin" (2019) describes the events unfolded during one day, where the key figure is the main character, grandfather’s foot. It is a kind of attribute for the director to juxtapose two worlds, World War II era and modern Georgia or society. The film does not teach any moralistic, “smart” lessons. Nikoloz Gabunia simply reflects the events, chooses neutrality, does not favor any side, does not try to romanticize anything or offend anyone. He only tells stories.