The Greeks used to call the Black Sea ‘Ponto Euxino’ — hospitable sea. That is the feeling one gets with this summery journey through the Black Sea through the drawings and insights narrated by dozens of children and crafted to form a small epic poem of recognition and adventure.
Soso Chkhaidze's documentary film "Kolkhida". Director's course work. Shot in 1967, in the third year of the Moscow Institute of Cinematography (ВГИК) (Pavel Chukhray's studio).
Temo is in debts, just like majority of Georgian population, he has lost everything and now he’s sheltered by his girlfriend who lives in a tiny shack, together with her mother. Temo tries different things to get out of the situation, but his attempts are naïve and futile, be it discovering of constant energy or farming frogs for selling on the internet. Social complications are putting more and more weight on Temo’s back, because of this Temo is forced to take a criminal way to solve his problems.
In Adjarian village Kirnati is a well organized kindergarten, which everyday hosts dozens of children, but one day huge snow came and teachers had nothing to do but wait for children all day.
After accidentally wandering onto someone's property, a simple young man is taken hostage for a ransom of a hundred dollars by two cousins.
Nugzari has settled down with his family in the ruins of Mutso, his childhood village in the deserted mountains of the Caucasus. Nourished by the epic legends created around this territory, Nugzari tries to pass on to his son his intimate relation to the stones and the past of this sacred hinterland of Georgia.
Based on characters from the popular Georgian TV series, the film centers on the wedding of the series’ iconic couple—Kato and Dato.
The film is set in the recently Sovietized Georgia during the NEP period. 1925 year… in spite of a number of obstacles and barriers, the American businessman, Averell Harriman, obtains a concession from the Soviet government to extract and export Chiatura manganese over the period of 20 years.
Winter which was not there’ can be seen as a metaphor for the liberation of an individual from his or her own history. In the film, a man watches a monumental concrete sculpture of a man being hoisted out of the sea. The sculpture is clearly reminiscent of a classic heroic monument but in a strange, and somewhat uncanny way, the face and figure of the sculpture look amazingly like the man who’s watching it rise out of the sea.
Life in a Georgian village as seen from the perspective of a 10 year old girl.
Bandura is growing up with his single mother in the Georgian region of Javakheti. The teenager earns extra money herding sheep, helping the local cheesemaker, and planting potatoes. Home at the kitchen table, his mother reads aloud from the Bible, but Bandura has other things on his mind: he wants to travel to the Moon. By selling sheep, he can make enough money to catch a boat to the United States, where he can start asking around about where to study to become a space traveller. Even though time appears to have come to a halt here, with a bit of fantasy – which our protagonist has plenty of – Javakheti by night really does look like the lunar landscape.
A genuine good puppeteer, Davit teaches people stuck in daily routine to love each other and to love the god. Though his life journey he inspires youngsters and meets the mentors he was inspired with.
A documentary film "Angels of Sorrow", dedicated to the 80th Jubilee of a contemporary Georgian classic composer - Giya Kancheli is filmed during the concert tour in several cities of the world (Berlin, Brussels, Antwerp, Baku, Tbilisi). He is an artist, for whom the most important thing in all time was freedom. During Soviet period, he was accused of introducing morphine with his music and that he rejoiced enemies in capitalist countries with it. Giya Kancheli with his friends replied to all these from theater stage, where they reflected the whole absurdity of the Soviet Union. The war is still going on - Art can't change anything.
Based on a Georgian folk tale. About an evil attic man who was afraid of children's laughter.
A dog helps many people and is thanked by all, but this may cause problems too.
Life in 1990s Georgia was wild. After the country’s first president was overthrown by a military-backed gang, a familiar face began rising to power. Facing betrayal, political intrigue, and even attempts on his life, Eduard Shevardnadze had to play his cards carefully to stay in control and hold on to the presidency.
