To the Moon by Bicycle

To the Moon by Bicycle 2021

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Documentary about the life and journey of Jumber Lezhava, the man who cycled around the world

2021

Little Dust

Little Dust 2022

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A story about a little piece of dust.

2022

Seazone

Seazone 2010

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Four friends find themselves trapped in an empty Batumi, with no one around and no way to leave. They must find out what happened to the city and its inhabitants while trying to find a way back home.

2010

Granny

Granny 2013

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Continuously working on her sewing machine, a woman seems to light up the night in the neighbourhood. A tribute of the director to his grandmother, the film is a tender everyday chronicle of the frequent power outages during Georgia’s first independent years, as well as of the endurance and imagination of the people, always ready to celebrate every time the power supply is temporarily restored.

2013

English Teacher

English Teacher 2012

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Young, adventurous English teacher is assigned to carry out a ‘linguistic revolution’ in the remote Georgian village. Basically looking for new adventures, a young teacher finds himself on the frontier of the big political change in the country. In order to get rid of the Soviet legacy and engage with the western world, government initiates a project to ‘invade’ Georgia with English speakers. Excited traveler is determined to contribute to a ‘radical changes’ in a small post soviet country. But when the first wave of excitement disappears, he is confronted with the gloomy reality.

2012

For Lilith

For Lilith 2023

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In the hands of a young filmmaker, a Handycam primarily used for homemade family movies transforms into a tool for self-reflection. Compilations of personal archives and images from the subconscious prompt us to embark on a journey of re-examining gender-identity formation in a conservative, post-Soviet Republic of Georgia.

2023

My Piece of the Earth

My Piece of the Earth 2019

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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.

2019

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

The Three Swallows

The Three Swallows 2016

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Three places in which men meet, share a moment, filling the emptiness of Tbilissi's daily life. At the baths, at the barber's or in an empty house haunted by three swallows, speech flows in enclosed spaces. The director observes and captures the intimacy of the words, the obviousness of the gestures and the unexpectedness of the events. A metaphor for liberty, the absolute dream of contemporary Georgia.

2016

Pig

Pig 2019

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After accidentally wandering onto someone's property, a simple young man is taken hostage for a ransom of a hundred dollars by two cousins.

2019

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

The American Concessioner of Chiatura Manganese - Averell Harriman

The American Concessioner of Chiatura Manganese - Averell Harriman 2018

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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.

2018

The invisible hand of my father

The invisible hand of my father 2018

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The source of this film is the personal life of my father, Nugzari, and his right hand. The hand that has been playing a crucial role in his economic and social life and has always been a guarantee of the financial stability of his family. The film traces a physical and a symbolic transition of his right hand: how the transition has been affecting his socio-economic life in his journey throughout different political ideologies that are represented and governed by symbolic hands.

2018

Transparent World

Transparent World 2018

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Beka is 26 years old... His father taught him his profession. Beka makes art photography and a film about a physicist and composer. He had his first photo exhibition recently. Father's patience and understanding helped him to introduce his son to adult life and make him believe in his own talent.

2018

National Exams

National Exams 1970

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Nana Mgaloblishvili is a Kartvelian (Georgian) language teacher at a parish school in western Sakartvelo. On April 9, 1989, during the bloody suppression of a peaceful demonstration for Sacartvelo's independence by the Soviet Russian army, she narrowly escaped death but was severely poisoned. Nana's lessons bring the past into the present, where literature and history meet the realities of today. In her classroom, knowledge becomes both a lesson and a prophecy, guiding her students as they prepare for their national exams.

1970