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Documentary about a martial arts camp on the shores of Lake Bazaleti.

When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, it became clear to anyone that the aggressor was conducting a hybrid war against Ukraine. It conquered Crimea with a combination of disinformation, propaganda, and secret military support for rebel groups and covert military operations. The only surprise is that many people were surprised when Russia deployed this military strategy, because it has a long history of doing so.

The animated short film tells the story of the life and work of the world's first elected female member of the Parliament Azerbaijani-Georgian Pari Khanum Sofieva.

While Temo, a 10-year old Georgian boy, is excited about receiving several chocolate Easter bunnies as a present from abroad, his father tries to use the moment to teach him a lesson.

This short hybrid documentary is a portrait of a 13-year-old girl in Gori, Georgia with a vivid imagination and love of storytelling.

On Akhmeteli St. #4 in Tbilisi, Georgia, there stands a decrepit apartment house the director of this documentary once grew up in. After 10 years spent abroad, he returns to capture the daily life of his neighbors on camera. the author quietly observes their private stories and examines how they are able to find happiness despite economical hardship and how they preserve their personalities and humor in spite of disillusion. Artistically, the film is based on the house as a microcosm metaphorical of today‘s Georgian society.

Professor of entomology Vakhtang Itrieli published several articles in which he sharply condemned Georgian nationalism. He calls for civil harmony in the name of universal ideals. For this, he is persecuted by nationalists who threaten to expel him from the university. Vakhtang meets a girl Nina. She is sympathetic to Vakhtang's problems. He, in turn, feels that danger is hanging over the girl...

The film is about a young student director, a boy who tries to convince a famous actress to play the lead role in his play. The play is based on documentary facts, which tells about the murder of 3 people that happened in Georgia in 2015-2017.

The late Georgian writer, filmmaker and university professor, Zaza Khalvashi, delivers a quirky yet genuine tale of mundanity in this posthumously produced feature. Drawing Lots is a vignette of a seaside community where an apartment block and courtyard serve as an amphitheatre for the mysterious power dynamics that play out in the residents’ intertwined lives.

TV documentary about architect Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili, who was also a downhill skiing and boxing champion of Georgia, directed by his widow.

A film about St. Gabriel (Urgebadze) of Georgia

Lado lives with his mother in a small town in Georgia. The same things are repeated every day in their lives, there is no difference between today and yesterday, until Lado decides to make a change.

The story is about Babajan, a water peddler who constantly gets into different uncomfortable situations.

Fast and radical changes, brought by the collapse of Soviet Union in my city - Tbilisi, capital of Georgia and was followed by fire at my home. All my memories vanishing away lead me to alienation.

This is a gentle and slightly absurdist documentary about the Ardoteli family in the mountains of Georgia who discovered that a Chechen helicopter carrying cheese had crashed by their house. Dropped into the life of this family, a helicopter is gradually enfolded into their daily rhythms, transformed into something utterly unexpected. In this land free of electric cables, cows find a shelter and children set up their private playground in it. Patient observations through the rusted “eyes” of this helicopter unfold a story of a remote place exposed to just one piece of civilization.

Two trucks with contrasting personalities each find love on the road.

What do children do when the whole world is in isolation due to the coronavirus and they have to spend all their time at home? Do they go to online classes? Do they call friends? Improvise on the piano? Sunbath on the balcony? Do they easily adapt to their isolation? This film follows the lives of two small dreamers, stuck in isolation in Tbilisi during the spring of 2020, the spring of the coronavirus.

In front of a little kid, unrolls a story of two groups of people, whose conflict revolves around Georgian society's cultural and political challenges which lead them into a mystical, and tragic, journey. Coming from elements of the society such as fairy tales, religion and pop-culture the film is filled with unforeseeable twists and shifts in the story, aesthetics, and genres.

Every corner of the mountains has its guardian angel - the Adgilis Deda (“place mother”). An old woman who has no right to die has become the Adgilis Deda of the abandoned mountain village. As long as she is alive, the village is called a village, only with her death will any sign of life disappear from that corner.

I, the daughter of a Georgian tiger mother, travel around classrooms and observe children to help portray my childhood. I juxtapose these images with my mother's letters, reflecting her attempt to transform me from a restive child into a model citizen.