Stairs (2017)

소련 공산체제가 무너진 뒤 독립한 국가들의 인종전쟁 중의 하나로 조지아와 아브카지아 간에 치열한 교전이 벌어진다. 소련체제가 붕괴하고 인종전쟁이 일어나면서 아브카지아에 살던 에스토니아인들은 대량으로 옛 조국으로 돌아갔다. 그러나 목수 노인 이보(렘비트 울프삭)와 이웃인 마르구스(엘모 누가넨)는 탠저린을 수확하기 위해 집을 지킨다. 이들은 전투가 바로 자기들 집 문밖에 이르렀지만 결코 평정을 잃지 않고 탠저린 수확에 정성을 쏟는다. 마침내 전투가 두 사람의 마당 앞에서 벌어지면서 서로가 원수지간인 체첸인 용병 아메드(기오르기 나카쉬제)와 조지아인인 니코(미하일 메스키)가 중상을 입고 이보 집 앞에 쓰러진다. 이보는 둘을 자기 집 안에 들여다 놓고 극진히 간호를 하는데 아픈 몸에도 불구하고 아메드와 니코는 몸만 나으면 서로 죽이겠다고 다짐을 한다. 아메드는 죽은 동료들의 복수를 하겠다고 이를 득득 가는데 니코도 이에 맞서 아메드에게 적의를 표하나 니코는 전쟁 전의 직업이 배우여서 용병인 아메드보다는 덜 호전적이다. 이 두 사람 간의 적의와 증오를 연민의 정과 함께 한심하다는 표정으로 지켜보면서 인자한 아버지처럼 그들을 돌보는 이보의 모습이 구세주 같다. 그러나 두 사람의 건강이 회복되는 시간이 길어지면서 한 집 식구처럼 된 둘 간의 적대감도 서서히 녹아 들면서 내면에 깊이 잠재해 있던 인간성이 서서히 고개를 든다. 그리고 다시 한 번 총격전이 이 마을 덮치면서 어제의 적이 오늘의 동지가 된다.

최강의 전쟁블록버스터 생존의 진실을 만나라! 당시 조지아의 대통령이던 미하일 사카슈빌리(앤디 가르시아 역)가 사회개혁 실패에 따른 국민들의 지지율이 계속 하락하자, 영토회복의지라는 국면전환용으로 조지아에 분리독립을 요구해 온 친 러시아 성향의 자치주 남오세티야공화국에 대한 무력침공을 감행하였고, 이에 남오세티야에 평화유지군을 파견하고 있던 러시아가 자국민보호를 주장하며 즉각 대규모 군대를 파병함에 따라 단번에 조지아와 러시아간의 전쟁으로 확산되었다. 이 참혹한 전쟁의 진실이 밝혀지는데…

보수적이고 엄격한 조지아 국립무용단의 댄서 메라비와 이라클리. 섬세하고 우아한 춤을 추는 메라비와 상반된 카리스마와 에너지를 가진 이라클리는 무용단의 앙상블 자리를 놓고 선의의 경쟁을 한다. 오디션을 위한 둘만의 연습이 계속될수록 이라클리의 존재는 메라비에게 점차 라이벌에서 저항할 수 없는 열망으로 변하는데...

만물상이 잡동사니 좌판을 펼치자 사람들이 하나둘 모여든다. 현금 대신 감자로 물건값을 치르는 별난 거래 현장. 지금 이곳은, 시간조차 멈춰 선 조지아의 외딴 마을이다.

Corruption, assassination and street rioting surround the story of the award-winning film, Power Trip, which follows an American multi-national trying to solve the electricity crisis in Tbilisi, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Power Trip provides insight into today's headlines, with a graphic, on-the-ground depiction of the challenges facing globalization in an environment of culture clash, electricity disconnections and blackouts.

Filmmaker Emily Railsback and award-winning sommelier Jeremy Quinn provide intimate access to rural family life in the Republic of Georgia as they explore the rebirth of 8,000-year-old wine-making traditions almost lost during the period of Soviet rule.

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

In a post war Georgia, an unemployed architect, Andro tries to help out his family, fills the car with household junk and goes to Turkey for private trading, with his son Dato. On the border they give a ride to a Turkish hitchhiker Taner, to Trabzon. This meeting turns this harmless journey, into series of unfortunate events for Andro and his son.

What happens when the imagination puts the mind into the unreal borders of false fear, the world around transforms into prison, and the only way out seems to be an escape to the new imagination, to the visual creation of the mind.

Anna is a 45 years old woman, living alone with her mother in the center of Tbilisi. One night, Anna's life takes a different turn, when at the concert, she sees the face of a woman in the crowd. How can one word change someone's life? How other's life influences our own? How can a person lose her face and identity?

This is an animated film, which is based on the adventure novel «Fourteen Crystals Theory», written by the director himself.

Thirteen-year-old Mariam lives with her father, Rezo, in the poor slums of Tbilisi. They share a one room shack. Mariam and Rezo are barely making a living, being forced to steal at times. Along with the struggle against poverty, Mariam also has to deal with the facts of becoming a woman and the fear that her father would betray her in order to make money.

The hero of the film - an old woman - encouraging certain circumstances (particularly cat) to recall fragments of her life. This is quite tragic past and the comes to bright striking detail - Kite, which at the end of the Accompany them old woman and his world safe for help them.

4 minutes black humor bringing to surprising cold and dramatic story to us. Based on the story the action of the film was moved to the supermarket diary product fridge in order to add more coldness and drama to the story and to feel cold physically. The film is made in cold, blue-grayish colors as much as possible.

Film tells the story of a grumpy, reclusive toad Geno and his neighbors, who are forced to seek a new habitat because a construction site invades the pond where they live.

Victor is a single father from a poor social class, who takes care of his autistic son Niko. To keep up with all the family expenses, Victor has to take multiple jobs, however he still can't manage to save money for Niko's proper therapy and for parental training in order to better help his beloved son in development and socializing. And one day, when Victor sees no hope, when he feels to be totally useless to his son, he takes a step that turns out to be fatal for Niko and himself.

Following an order of the landowner, the bride of Arsena’s fellow villager gets kidnapped and the bride’s father is relentlessly flogged. Arsena tries to rescue the woman but fails and goes to the mountains with his newly married wife. Above all, Arsena learns that his wife is impregnated by the landowner and burns down his house. Arsena gets arrested, but manages to escape and joins the rebel peasants. Arsena feels that with the passage of time the rebels turn into criminals and continues to fight with the oppressors alone.

A documentary film "Angels of Sorrow", dedicated to the 80th Jubilee of a contemporary Georgian classic composer - Giya Kancheli is filmed during the concert tour in several cities of the world (Berlin, Brussels, Antwerp, Baku, Tbilisi). He is an artist, for whom the most important thing in all time was freedom. During Soviet period, he was accused of introducing morphine with his music and that he rejoiced enemies in capitalist countries with it. Giya Kancheli with his friends replied to all these from theater stage, where they reflected the whole absurdity of the Soviet Union. The war is still going on - Art can't change anything.

After 14 years in prison, the time has come for Gogita to return to his normal life. His wishes seem modest enough: a home of his own and then marriage to a nice woman. But who would be interested in a poor farmer and ex-con who still lives with his mother? Then he meets Maka on the internet. She's not that young anymore, and she's not the prettiest girl in the world, but she can bake delicious cakes. They're soon making grand plans without even having met.