Ramin, aka Fantomas, an old freestyle wrestling champion, drives across Georgia in his car to pay a visit to his mother’s grave. During his trip he testifies to the creeping decadence of a sport that was once one of the most popular in the Caucasus. But this does not torment him at 75 as much as the lack of a constant female presence in his life. An epic and poetic film about t...
“The disintegration of the Soviet Union is the greatest crime of the twentieth century.” This has been stated by Vladimir Putin on several occasions, and some residents of Gori strongly agree with him. In Stalin’s birthplace in Georgia, they dream about a return to the time when the dictator was firmly in control.
These die-hard Stalinists are therefore shocked when city author...
Anna Dziapshipa was born of the union between an Abkhazian man and a Georgian woman. In Self-Portrait Along the Borderline, she skilfully weaves together unique archives and fragments to offer a personal and political biography of Georgia-Abkhazia relations. This vibrant exploration foregrounds a divided identity caught between the margins.
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At first there’s nothing but clouds. A cock crows, sheep bells ring, a herd of cows begins to move. The sounds seem to come from another age. When the morning mist clears, we recognize the outlines of an abandoned village. Decayed huts, broken fences, crooked roofs. The film looks like an oil painting, a still life painted in sometimes delicate, sometimes broad brushstrokes, ba...
Alexander’s transgender identity means he is obliged to lead a life of secrecy in his home country. Being identified as “female” in his passport means he cannot legally find work, either. Since even a visit to the doctor is a risk for him, he has begun hormone therapy to transition on his own with support from internet forums and the local transgender community. Desperate to es...
Sol Svanetij (Salt for Svanetia) was made in 1929 about a remote Ukraine primitive Northern isolated area of the Ukraine where the people are poor, preyed upon and severely lack salt (animals lick blood, urine to find the precious commodity). Religion is one of the people's curses ... they donate their few coins to the Church that doesn't do much to relieve the populace sufferi...
Under the premise of documenting for the sake of preservation the various forms of Georgian religious chanting, a distinct kind of sonorous psalmody passed over from generation to generation, what Otar Iosseliani captures in reality is the snapshot of a not-so-distant past that coexists with the world we might know yet transports us to what used to be.
塔姆塔·加布里奇兹(Tamta Gabrichidze)的纪录片《交易员》(The Trader)获得圣丹斯电影节大奖
电影制作人塔姆塔·加布里奇兹(Tamta Gabrichidze)的纪录片《交易员》(the Trader)在周二的圣丹斯电影节(Sundance F ilm Festival)上获得了短片评委会大奖。
这位年轻导演的短片从上周开始在圣丹斯放映了三次。本月早些时候，这部短片被电影平台Netflix选择在全球发行。
这是圣丹斯短片奖获奖影片之一，电影节将持续到周日。
这名商人也叫索夫达加里(Sovdagari)，他跟随主角吉拉(Gela)穿越格鲁吉亚的乡村，从他的面包车后座上卖二手衣服和日常用品。
吉拉在乡村和城镇做生意，那里的主要交易货币是土豆，而不是钱。
老老少少都盯着他的卡车，看到海绵和毛刷等现代化的便利设施，他们的眼睛都亮了起...
A documentary about the mysterious yet fascinating story of Georgian traditional folk chants and their protectors. As if they were dealing with the very Holy Grail, many unknown figures devoted their lives to maintain and share their folklore while enduring oppression first by the Tsarist era and then by the Bolsheviks. Two centuries have passed and it seems history finally has...
