Mameluke

Mameluke 1958

6.05

In Arabic, “mameluke” means a white slave, a prisoner. In Egypt, this name was given to prisoners of war who had been sold into slavery from Georgia and other countries of the Caucasus. The action of this drama starts in Georgia in the late 18th century. Two friends are abducted and sold into slavery. One ends up in Egypt, the other - in Venice. Years later, they meet by the ancient pyramids, in the desert where a battle is going on between the armies of Bonaparte and Ali-bey, the ruler of Egypt. In a combat with a French officer, the Mameluke injures him. Falling from his horse onto the sand, the officer exclaims in Georgian: “Vai, nana!” (“Oh, mother!”). And the Mameluke recognizes in him a mate of his childhood games.

1958

A Trip To Karabakh 2 Conflict Zone

A Trip To Karabakh 2 Conflict Zone 2009

8.00

The Soviet Union has collapsed. Civil and ethnic wars have broken out in Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, three republics in the Caucasus. The post-Soviet Caucasus have turned into one large conflict zone. Two radically different people with different ideals, problems, and goals are united by the conflict zone. Gogliko, a Tbilisi street boy, and Spartak, a Sukhumi sniper, are forced to solve problems of the street and problems of the state together. For one, the goal is to get back the money he lost gambling; for the other, it is to carry out a general's absurd military mission. In spite of it all, their paths cross and their lives are changed forever.

2009

Safe Corridor

Safe Corridor 2019

6.50

Shindisi tells the story of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war through the fate of 17 Georgian soldiers who died during the Shindisi battle. The script was written by Irakli Solomanashvili based on real facts and the cast includes Georgian actors as well as real Georgian soldiers with combat equipment.

2019

Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story

Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story 1983

7.21

An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.

1983

Wolf Psychology

Wolf Psychology 2009

1

A mystical thriller drama with an intense storyline

2009

The Day

The Day 1993

1

Showing a day from the life of an ordinary young Georgian obsessed with the instinct of self-destruction, desperate protest and morbid nihilism, this film is one of the last Georgian films created at the period of the collapse of the USSR in 1989 1990. Levan Glonti does a wonderful job at portraying a collapse of an empire reflected in the collapse of an individual. Dge (The Day) was released soon after the break up of the Soviet Union, in 1991.

1993

O My Homeland!

O My Homeland! 1981

2.00

In the southern region of Georgia, in ancient Meskheti, a young man, Giorgi Toreli, is appointed as the secretary of the Raikom. He aims at the revival of his native region and for this he begins to fight against bureaucracy, autocracy, corruption, prevailing inertia.

1981

The Eccentrics

The Eccentrics 1974

7.11

Ertaoz travels to the city with the intent to sell a chicken and pay off his father's debts. Upon arrival, he falls for the beautiful Margalita and decides to help her dispose of her ex-lover's body. However, at the cemetery, the lover–a policeman–unexpectedly regains consciousness and arrests Ertaoz and the chicken. Ertaoz is sentenced to ten years, while the bird receives seven. In prison, they meet an inventor who has built a flying machine that runs not on fuel but the power of love.

1974

Bela

Bela 1927

2.00

Pechorin is deprived of the officer’s rank and gets transferred to one of the mountain villages of the Caucasus. He gets bored of the everyday life and starts looking for fun. He promises Azamat to help him steal Kazbich’s horse if the former allows Pechorin to marry his sister Bela. Soon Pechorin gets annoyed by Bela’s presence. Kazbich, insulted by the theft of his horse kills Bela. Coldblooded Pechorin is hardly moved by this news.

1927

Some Interviews on Personal Matters

Some Interviews on Personal Matters 1978

4.90

Sophiko, a well-known journalist, seems to be more close to many of her respondents when they need her advice than to her family members. All engrossed in her work, she suddenly finds out that she is losing her husband who has started a love affair with another woman. Of course, it strikes her badly but life never lets her to concentrate on her personal problems.

1978

The Adventures of Ano & Vano

The Adventures of Ano & Vano 2011

10.00

The film tells about the summer adventure of brother and sister, Ano and Vano. At the beginning, it becomes clear that the book of fairy tales of the peoples of the world of all times brought to the State Museum of Georgia has disappeared. After this event, pictures and writings disappear from all fairy-tale books and a portrait of a one-eyed evil character appears. It is at this time that Ano and Vano, who went to the village for a vacation, begin their fabulous journey into a fantastic world, which will be guided by Ochopintre

2011

Dede

Dede 2017

5.60

It's 1992. Young Dina lives in a remote mountain village where life is strictly governed by centuries of tradition. Dina's grandfather has promised her to David, who is returning from the war. But with him comes a comrade-in-arms, the handsome Gegi, and Dina falls in love. Is it possible to defy the firmly established order?

2017

An Unforgettable Day

An Unforgettable Day 1978

7.00

Short film. The lyric kinonovella about two boys - restless and mischievous, their short acquaintance with the girl who came to the village from the city, about the friendship between them that originated ...

1978

Tell My Friends That I'm Dead

Tell My Friends That I'm Dead 2004

1

We are in western Georgia. Here, according to custom, the dead are not separated from the living. People involve them in their family life, talk to them and seek their advice. They protect the dead and they hope the dead will protect them.The family is never alone. The neighbours are there to keep up their spirits, to help them with the ceremony: "Everything has to be properly done". Tsotne, dressed in his best suit gets ready to "welcome the guests". The condolences ceremony starts at eight o'clock in the evening.

2004

Magdana's Donkey

Magdana's Donkey 1955

6.20

This chamber drama is set in Georgia on the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A simple peasant family makes its living by selling yogurt which the Magdany widow takes every morning to the town market. Once, in their mother’s absence, the children – six-year-old Mikho and three-year-old Kato – found an abandoned donkey on a road leading to their village. The foundling was fed, tended, and the moment the donkey opened its big, tender eyes, it was named “Lurdja”, which means “blue-eyed”. Surrounded by love and care, the donkey became a big help in the poor household. But this idyll was not to last long…

1955

Gelati

Gelati 1958

6.00

Lana Gogoberidze's thesis film about Gelati Monastery, a medieval monastic complex near Kutaisi in the Imereti region of western Georgia.

1958

Supporting Role

Supporting Role 2026

1

A retired Georgian film star, used to playing heroic leads, embarks on a cathartic odyssey after being offered a supporting role of an unpleasant elderly man.

2026

Manana

Manana 1958

3.80

The film tells the story of the adventures of the usual mischievous girl, full of tricks, which will promote the love of a blind elderly grandmother and grandfather, lies misled those around you. But naturally kind and intelligent child soon he realizes that would be to all people and has promised that from now on will become a model pupil

1958