Eliso (1928)

이디오피아의 공산군 점령지역에서 기아 난민 구호사업을 하는 영국인 의사 닉 칼라한 (클라이브 오웬 분)은 영국 기아 돕기 재단의 자선 파티장에 나타나 자선 사업가들의 위선을 질타하며 그들의 자각과 반성을 촉구한다. 재단 이사장의 며느리인 사라 조르단 (안젤리나 졸리 분)은 닉이 파티장에 데려온 이디오피아 소년의 참혹한 몰골에 충격을 받고는 자신의 저금을 털어 구호 물자를 구입하여 닉이 활동하는 이디오피아 캠프를 찾아간다. 그리곤 영국으로 돌아온 사라는 UN 산하 국제 난민 고등 판문 위원회 (UNHCR)에서 일하게 된다. 남편 헨리와 불화에 시달리던 사라는 닉의 동료로부터 연락을 받는다. 닉이 크메르 루즈 치하의 캄보디아에 난민 캠프를 열었는데 UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) 의 명의를 이용, 구호물자 수송을 도와 달라는 것이었다. 그러자 그녀는 직접 물자를 수송하면서 캄보디아에 있는 닉을 다시 만나게 되고 마침내 둘은 운명적인 사랑에 빠진다. 그러나 닉은 그와 함께 하면 사라마저 위험하다며 그녀를 영국으로 다시 돌려 보낸다. 그러던 중, 닉이 체첸에서 활동하다가 반군에게 납치됐다는 소식을 듣고는 다시 죽음을 무릅 쓴 채 체첸으로 향하는데...

러시아 말을 전혀 못하는 체첸 소년. 전쟁의 포화 속에서 사체들이 널려있다. 러시아 법정. 12명의 배심원이 선발되어 한 소년의 살인죄에 대한 유.무죄를 가리게 된다. 만장일치가 되어야만 소년의 형량이 결정된다. 12명의 배심원들은 학교의 빈 강당으로 수용되고 이들은 모든 외부 세계와 단절 되어야만 한다. 혹시라도 있을 수 있는 편견과 잘못된 판단을 방지하기 위하여. 이들은 서로 이름도 모르고 아무런 연계성이 없는 사람들. 이들은 대표 한 사람을 뽑아서 회의를 열어간다. 이들은 모두 어차피 수사가 다 끝났고 증인도 있으니 이 불쌍한 체첸 소년은 유죄라 생각하고 빨리 결정을 내고 해산하려는 생각뿐이다. 그러나 그 중 단 한 사람이 무죄를 선언하자 법석이 일어난다. 배심원들 생각은 “거지같은 체첸 새끼가 고아가 된 자기를 길러준 의붓아버지(러시아 군 장교 출신)를 배은망덕하게 죽인 나쁜 놈이라”는 편견을 갖고 있다. 그것도 체첸에서 가지고 온 칼로 찔러 죽인 거라고…

During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.

Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.

Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights. Now presumed dead by those he loves, he performs for the poor and unfortunate on his journeys through the wilderness. Parajanov's visually ravishing 'tableaux vivants' tell Lermontov's romantic tale while Turkish and Azerbaijani folk songs transport us into its mystical landscapes.

This is a story about the battle for a hospital building in Grozny (Chechnya) in January 1995 between Russian Army forces and Chechen rebels supported by Arabian mujahideen and international mercenaries. Although the story is fictional, most of the characters are based on real-life prototypes and events are the compilation of true events during the Grozny Siege in the First Chechen War.

This poetic parable is part of Tenghiz Abuladze’s cinematic triptych: “The Supplication” – “The Wishing Tree” – “Repentance”. The place is Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. That’s how director Tenghiz Abuladze described his film: “’The Wishing Tree’ is a film about the people lit up by a dream. Every character has its own ideal. One is worshipping the skies, another the earth, some idolize the body, others elevate the spirit. Some destroy the body, others the soul…” Marita, the film’s heroine, arrived here to live with her aunt. She meets a poor young lad, Gedia, and falls in love with him. But her relatives are determined to marry the girl off to a local rich man…

Jim Jacobs and Nick Carlton, childhood friends, are CIA operatives on a sting operation in Chechnya. The raid of a rebel militia group goes bad and the entire teams gets wiped out except for Jim and Nick, who manages to save them both. Five years later, they are out of the CIA game.

A filmmaker from England is hired to direct an epic production in the Caucasus region of Europe.

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.

Georgia, 1864. The Tsarist regime is using Cossacks to forcibly resettle Muslim Georgians to Turkey in order to steal their land. Meanwhile a Muslim girl falls in love with a Christian from the next village.

Georgian and foreign alpinists make an effort to ascend a high mountain. The weather is inclement making their effort extremely perilous. Every step on the snow-covered trail is precarious. Professionalism, firmness and compassion have far more value than the physical ability.

They’ve become the human face of inhuman barbarity. Leaders like Hitler, Idi Amin Dada, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceausescu, Bokassa, Muammar Kadhafi, Khomeini, Mussolini and Franco governed their countries completely cut off from reality. These paranoid leaders were driven to abuse their power by the pathology of power itself. Dictators are driven by a relentless, thought-out determination to impose themselves as infallible, all-knowing and all-powerful beings. But they are also men ruled by their caprices, uncontrollable impulses, and reckless fits of frenzy, which paradoxically render them as human as anyone else. The abuses they committed were clearly atrocious, yet some of them were as outlandish as the characters portrayed in the film The Dictator. They sunk to depths worthy of Kafka: so incredibly absurd, they are outrageously funny.

A young girl named Maia disguises herself as a boy in order to fight against the enemies of her country.

An auteur-director who wishes to make a documentary about Armenia imagines a fictitious character that has the ability to travel through bodies. The latter will alternatively embody: a young farmer that dreams to flee from the countryside to more urban spheres, a prostitute who is a survivor of rape, a narcissistic client, a fallen artist and finally, a resisting deserter.

As Russian tanks advance over the plains of Chechnya, a group of Russian mothers search for the sons, conscripts from the ill-fated 131st Brigade, they believe have been captured by the Chechens. They place their trust in Colonel Kosov, a Russian liaison officer responsible for organising prisoner exchanges across the front line.

In Georgia, in the middle of a desert, on the hottest day of summer two water-melon sellers cross paths.

Alexander Nevzorov's documentary of the storming of Grozny in 1994-95

Short documentary about Russian special forces during the Third Battle of Grozny during the First Chechen War