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Georgian
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Unmarried at 31, Zaza has become an embarrassment to his family. With one potential bride after another trotted out in front of him, he somehow manages to never tie the knot. Curious, his family investigates and discovers his secret relationship to a divorcée. Upset, the entire family decide to intervene.
Language
Georgian
Description
Early '90s, in Tbilisi, the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country is facing violence, war on the Black Sea coast, and vigilante justice that plague society. But for Eka and Natia, fourteen-year-old inseparable friends, life just unfolds - in the street, at school, with friends, or Eka's elder sister. Although they are already dealing with men's dominance, early marriage, and disillusioned love,...
Language
Georgian
Description
The President and his family rule the land with a draconian fist, enjoying a privileged and luxurious existence at the expense of his miserable and oppressed subjects. After a coup d'etat uproots his position of power, the President's wife and daughters are flown out of the country as he stays behind with his grandson, who is too young to grasp the unfolding events. After his personal escort and bodyguards turn on him, he is forced to disguise himself...
Language
Georgian
Description
Dariko, the only local television journalist in a small town in Georgia, strives from one report to the next to provide a pseudo-ethnographical portrait of a community and its traditions. Like Virgil with Dante, she leads director Salome Jashi through the Georgian "circles of hell" in a microscopic tragi-comedy that reveals a country in perpetual transition.--Container
5) Dede
Language
Georgian
Description
Gegi and David are brothers in arms returning home to the high snowy peaks of Svaneti. Gegi saved David's life on the battlefield, and is thus invited to be guest of honor at the latter's wedding to Dina. But by fateful coincidence, Dina and Gegi have also fallen in love during a fleeting wartime encounter without even knowing each other's names. Dina tries to break off her arranged marriage to David, but her mutiny threatens to overturn entrenched...
Language
Georgian
Formats
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A passionate tale of love and liberation set amidst the conservative confines of modern Georgian society, AND THEN WE DANCED follows Merab, a devoted dancer who has been training for years with his partner Mary for a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble. The arrival of another male dancer, Irakli—gifted with perfect form and equipped with a rebellious streak—throws Merab off balance, sparking both an intense rivalry and romantic desire that...
Language
Georgian
Description
Chiatura is a city in Western Georgia. There was a time when it supplied 50 per cent of the world's manganese. Today, with drastically reduced manganese production, dangerous working conditions and little prospect for any improvement, it is becoming a ghost town. For the Soviets, it was the embodiment of a bright, utopian future: Theaters, universities, concert halls, stadiums and parks were built. Chiatura was a human and technological experiment...
9) The harve$t
Language
Georgian
Description
A country that not long ago suffered daily power outages is now engaged in a highly technological form of capitalism. Set in the rural region of Kakheti, Georgia, this rigorous documentary, avoiding verbal commentary and even music, silently paints a picture of the Bitcoin mining process, juxtaposed against a backdrop of unpaved roads and horse-drawn carriages.
10) Beginning
Language
Georgian
Description
In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah's Witness community is under attack from an extremist group. During this conflict is Yana, the wife of the community leader, whose familiar world is slowly crumbling around her. Meanwhile, a detective intrudes on her home with devastating consequences. Recalling the films of Michael Haneke, Carlos Reygadas, and Chantal Akerman, this is a provocative and visually arresting feature debut from Georgian writer-director...
11) Brighton 4th
Language
Georgian
Description
In this portrait of parental sacrifice and the love of a father for his son, former wrestler Kakhi embarks on a journey from his home in the Republic of Georgia to visit his son Soso in the Russian-speaking neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. There he finds him living in a shabby boarding house populated by a colorful group of fellow Georgian immigrants. Soso is not studying medicine, as Kakhi believed, but is working for a moving company and...
Language
Georgian
Description
The film reveals the intertwined lives of international chess heroes: Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Maia Chiburdanidze and Nana Ioseliani. These four legendary female players from Georgia revolutionized women's chess and became Soviet icons of women's empowerment. The women leave a lasting legacy. They played together on the Soviet Union's Olympic team, but they were also competitive with each other. Now older, they are still important icons...