Reihe 6

Reihe 6 2023

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In 2008, through Russian military interventions, South Ossetia was declared an “independent” territory. Robinson and part of his family still live in the Georgian settlement that was built for the refugees. The story of a parallelism: while Robinson gazes into the distance, uprooted, life for his grandchildren begins in the here and now.

2023

Playing Shylock

Playing Shylock 1970

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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.

1970

A Letter to the Children

A Letter to the Children 1981

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

1981

Ruso

Ruso 2021

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Ruso, a migrant worker from Georgia, begins another cleaning shift at the University. She keeps her head down, does her job as required, and passes the shift on phone calls with her son. Usually no one notices her. That's not the case today.

2021

Shakro and Zakro

Shakro and Zakro 1973

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

1973

Requiem to Hot Days of Summer

Requiem to Hot Days of Summer 2023

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Guri and his mother, Sanata, have been living in a mountainous village of Georgia, with a dog – Tuia. The visual observational journey vividly shows motherhood’s bond, image of everlasting, pure, endearing union. Meanwhile, living in harmony, what happens if a third person intrudes in their tacit relationship. The young lady’s rapid appearance arouses questions – to what direction their life will turn, what will be transformed, lost, or gained.

2023

State of emergency

State of emergency 2020

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The world has become akin to an abandoned video game: frozen and endless. State of Emergency wants to recreate this strange video-game reality. The film is an attempt to save a place in time: to describe it, and to remember it. Our current present — our own state of emergency, the Covid-19 pandemic — began more than a year ago, and no one knows how long it will last. The main markers of this new reality are isolation and distance. In the film, we see a virtual city has become like time itself, a labyrinth that is endless and uncertain. Meanwhile, lines from a diary collect the disparate thoughts accumulated over the course of a month.

2020

Water Has No Borders

Water Has No Borders 2021

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Since the end of the civil war in the early 1990s, the region of Abkhazia has been acting independently of Georgia. This has turned a massive dam into a border. But the hydroelectric power station also connects the two political entities: Because over a distance of fifteen kilometres the water flows freely, underground, from one side to the other. When a young journalist gets stranded here, stories of division emerge.

2021

Postoto

Postoto 2016

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Postoto-the epitaph of Oto Katamadze from Batumi, who made his school friends listen to 30 years of out-of-fashion Led Zeppelin, put together a band that a few years later turned out to be one of the brightest and most influential blues bands in Georgia — and died in a car accident. Assembled from the monologues of close friends and colleagues of the musician, the film evokes an almost physical sense of loss, lack: in the place of the main character in this story, an uncomfortable, not yet prolonged void yawns. The snow-covered Black Sea coast in the finale is not the most obvious (and yet readable) visual image of rock and roll: from the winter Yalta in "Ass" and the final scene of "Needle" to the classic cover of "Russian Field of Experiments", white snow in the post-Soviet latitudes has always been considered a suitable background for the slogan Live fast, die young.

2016

Romance

Romance 2020

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Henry is a 20 year-old American gay boy studying Georgian folk music. He will be a hostage, a victim, fiance, sweetheart and knight. A strange exotic tradition. Henry's humanity character saves a girl's life.

2020

Among the Leaves

Among the Leaves 2020

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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.

2020

Broccoli Soup

Broccoli Soup 2020

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Irakli and Elena escape city life in a highland village. They want to restore a good relationship. Elena tries to create spiritual peace through yoga, while Irakli is addicted to alcohol, therefore they do not have a harmonious relationship, nevertheless they continue to live together.

2020

Everything about Nothing

Everything about Nothing 2020

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The film tells the story of a large family in a village, which is locked in one space due to snow, but despite being in the same building, they do not have close contact with each other. The main character is Nika, disabled persons. He is excluded from siblings and only has a relationship with the father.

2020

Xitana

Xitana 2019

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In the isolated mountainous region of Tusheti in North East Georgia, life has remained largely unchanged since medieval times until last summer, when the Georgian government introduced free wifi access. As a result, the aspirations of young Tushetians are shifting dramatically, caught between nostalgia for the past and yearning for the future - and nowhere is this conflict of desires more pronounced than during Atengenoba, the region’s traditional summer festivities, which also fall within its busiest tourist season.

2019

Refugee Boat Enguri

Refugee Boat Enguri 2016

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Batumi is the tourist center of Georgia. Every day large number of locals and tourists watch the ships entering or leaving the port. There is only one ship, "Enguri", with its crew of two that never leaves the port. The three of them are refugees from Abkhazia. Lado is the captain and Vakho is the boatswain. They never leave their almost broken ship, anchored in Batumi port.

2016