When the republic of Georgia declared war on the rebellious province of Abkhazia, many of the country's young artists and intellectuals responded to their government's call to fight. Every culture, it seems, needs to discover for itself that war is hell. Khaindrava's version of this aperçu is in every sense a front-line bulletin: it's a black-and-white docudrama about Georgia's attempts to subdue the rebellion in Abkhazia, made with real young soldiers and partly shot in the thick of battle. It starts with the eagerness of students and intellectuals to volunteer for the Georgian army and ends with the deaths of many. Khaindrava, several times imprisoned for dissidence in USSR days, knows all about the conflict: he helped launch it when he was made Minister for Abkhazian Affairs - a post he soon quit. He should have watched Hell Is for Heroes before he took the job.
War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
Dmitrij has recently returned to his small Georgian hometown after graduating from a university abroad. His monotonous days drag on, between working and the solitary rock-climbing excursions.
Givi lives in Moscow, and Levan in Tbilisi. The friends had not seen each other for thirty years and found each other on a social network. It would seem that they have nothing in common. Givi is a film director and has family problems. Levan is lonely and lives like a homeless person. Givi is going through changes in his life, while Levan has not changed anything for a long time. But they have something in common – childhood memories. Thanks to communication on a social network, they begin to help each other. Levan opens up to Givi from a new, unexpected side, and Givi gets the opportunity to return to his childhood, to his hometown.
A series of high-profile murders, a captured criminal, awaiting a final verdict—this is the subject of the documentary film that Irakli is working on. The production team is actively investigating the facts, meeting with people connected to the suspect, and even speaking with the detainee, who is held in the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ detention center. The deeper the investigation goes, the more sharply society’s role in perpetuating injustice and the destruction of the free spirit comes into focus.
A simple Tbilisi story seen by 12 directors,of which the first begins and the 12th ends the film.The directors and the actors as well the genre are changing. All actors are playing leading roles. Represantives of different professions are also involved in the film to create an image of Georgian society.
Civil War in the 1990s. Society is divided into two opposing parts. The protagonist has relatives and friends on both sides, he is torn by this predicament.
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.
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