Tangerines

Tangerines 2013

7.70

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.

2013

In Bloom

In Bloom 2013

7.00

Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.

2013

Sun of the Sleepless

Sun of the Sleepless 1992

5.10

The director dedicated this lyrical, epic film-confession to the memory of his father who was a doctor. The film’s protagonist, an ambulance doctor, conducts dangerous experiments in search of a vitally important vaccine. His wife believes in his work, though his daughter would not understand him. His son, who is absolutely unlike his father in character, is trying to protect him. But self-denial in the name of science proves too high a price. Just when he is on the verge of discovery, the doctor loses everything he has gathered as a result of his twenty-year-long work. This loss brings him even closer to his son. The shooting of the film continued for seven years (1985-1992), making it a metaphorical culmination of the Soviet cinematography and the Soviet way of life as a whole.

1992

Brigands, Chapter VII

Brigands, Chapter VII 1996

5.10

A witty, despairing French-Russian-Italian-Swiss art movie set in 16th-century Georgia, Stalinist Georgia, contemporary Georgia, and contemporary Paris, featuring the same set of actors in all four settings.

1996

Kvevri

Kvevri 1971

5.50

Gogia brings home a kvevri (georgian wine vessel) made in Imereti in Kakheti . Kvevri brought from a distance with a sledgehammer breaks carelessly. Gogia takes craftsman Abesalom home, who repairs the kvevri, but he himself will get stuck inside of it .

1971

Lemon Cake

Lemon Cake 1977

9.00

Road masters Abessalom, Beso and Gigla decide to enjoy lemon cake for dessert.

1977

I See the Sun

I See the Sun 1965

5.10

In Georgia during WWII Zurikela, an orphan boy, meets Khatia, a blind girl, and vows to help her to see again.

1965

Pastorale

Pastorale 1975

5.20

In the mountain village comes a group of young musicians in Tbilisi. Here they are going to relax and rehearse. Sad story about the final rupture occurred, the peasants do not sing beautiful old songs, the musicians play music incomprehensible to them ... Far from the idyllic image of rural life.

1975

Voyage of the Young Composer

Voyage of the Young Composer 1985

5.00

The year is 1907. The young composer Nikusha sets out on a journey over the villages of Central Georgia to record folk songs. For this he provides himself with a map of the places he would like to visit. His accidental co-traveler is Leko Tatasheli who is convinced that the composer is on a mission of the revolutionary committee and his map is the plan of a future uprising…

1985

Khareba and Gogia

Khareba and Gogia 1987

4.70

Khareba Jibuti, Prince Kharashvili’s right hand man becomes an outlaw after he witnesses a series of injustices. After meeting another outlaw Gogia Kenkiashvili he joins his bunch in the forest. They cause lots of trouble for the local rich thus winning the hearts and minds of poor people. Nevertheless, when captain Akhvlediani opens the hunting season on two renowned outlaws he finds a much-needed man who is ready to show him their whereabouts.

1987

Samanishvili's Stepmother

Samanishvili's Stepmother 1977

3.90

Impoverished old nobleman Bekina insists on marrying a wife, but his son Platon does not want to have sharer in father's inheritance. Platon finds two times widowed and childless bride for Bekina, but a fate makes fun of him.

1977

The Fastest People in the World

The Fastest People in the World 1985

5.50

Rachvelians, notables with their slowness tell awkward, partly unbelievable and very funny anecdotes they have gone through, while their countryman participates in long-distance race.

1985

Small Town of Anara

Small Town of Anara 1978

7.00

Tadeoz Toroshelidze is the most reknowned wine drinker in the whole area. Once he even won a drinking horn in a competition that has rested in his house ever since.

1978

Gogi Ratiani

Gogi Ratiani 1927

3.80

Directed by Kote Mardzhanishvili Production: Georgia Goskinprom The fate of two Georgian schoolchildren, Gogi and Kiko, who share a love of painting, a dream to go to art school. The action of the film begins on the eve of the October Revolution.

1927

The Summit

The Summit 1976

4.00

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.

1976

Comrade Stalin Goes to Africa

Comrade Stalin Goes to Africa 1991

5.00

A mockumentary mixing actual private footage of Stalin with reconstructed dramatic sequences featuring doubles.

1991

Cast Iron

Cast Iron 1964

4.50

Documentary of the Rustavi Metal Works, in the country of Georgia.

1964

Saba

Saba 1929

5.20

A rework of Boris Sigal's play The Trial of Stepan Korolev. Set in Tbilisi rather than Leningrad is a morality tale about the hazards of alcohol consumption that is nonetheless not without humor.

1929

Wine Thieves

Wine Thieves 1975

3.70

Co-villagers lead secretly into scrooge-type Elibo's wine-cellar, but good wine makes them to sing loudly and awaken Elibo joins to thieves feast.

1975