Different branches of art have their expressive means. Painting uses visual forms, literature uses words, and cinema uses both (and, of course, many more). It is interesting to observe how the same message, topic, is transferred from one field of art to another or how a work of one field becomes an inspiration for a work of another (and sometimes third) field of art. Such is Niko Pirosmani's painting, "Kakhetian Train," which first became the basis for Archil Kikodze's story of the same name, and then this story became a film directed by Lali ...

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What do the words, such as: a bee, kindness, radiates, educator, intelligent, simplicity, pearl, an orphan, a hero, noble, versatile, diligent, self-sacrifice, aristocracy, an old oak, faithful, a priest, a writer, a musician – that people say in Georgian or Italian at the beginning of this film have in common? While hearing each word, we can see its printed version and its Italian or Georgian translation from the dictionary, which suddenly...

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Everyone creates a work based on what they know and have experienced, and the plot does not matter. No matter how much they talk, Rusudan Glurjidze's film ”House of Others" (2016) is neither about Abkhazia and its conflict, nor about Abkhazians. This is about the author’s feelings, about the difference caused by a change of your environment, when your lively and bright native city ...

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"A good Svan story" - this is how the title of Mariam Khatchvani's feature film, shot in 2017, is translated from Svan into Georgian. The audience knows this movie by the title – "Dede" (authors of the script - Mariam Khatchvani, Vladimer Kacharava). Its main character is a woman – Dina (Natia Vibliani). The director of the film says in one of the interviews that the narration ...

WHEN YOU CAN'T WAIT TO TELL, WHAT YOU WANT TO TELL Read More

The time when the release of a new Georgian film was a special event is long gone. Starting from Tbilisi, where there used to be more than twenty cinemas ending with the highland villages, where there was a mobile cinema set, which was carried by car (and in heavy snow – by cart) to the waiting audience. Today, the premiere of a new film will be shown successfully in any of the few capital's cinema halls, it will go around foreign film festival screens...

"HEY, DADDY, TELL ME, WHERE ARE YOU?" Read More