A Tunnel
GWIRABI
Nino Orjonikidze/ Vano Arsenishvili
GE/DE / 2019 / 90 min
A sleepy train station somewhere in the middle of Georgia. The “Belt and Road Initiative” is to pass through here in the not-too-distant future. Hundreds of Chinese workers soon settle in the remote valley in order to, quite literally, move ...
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Kolkhida
KOLCHIDA
Soso Chkhaidze
SU (GE) / 1967 / 20 min
For a long time, the swamplands on the Georgian Black Sea coast were considered to be a "land of death". In this documentary film Soso Chkhaidze takes an ethnographic look at the history of the Colchis Lowland, or Kolkhida, and creates, in the ...
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Cheerless
Ujmuri
Nutsa Gogoberidze
GE / 1934 / 58 min
In the land of the Colchis, in western Georgia, people have eternally been plagued by malaria, and yet their superstitious belief in “Ujmuri”, the deity of the swamp, stands in the way of a Soviet modernisation project; namely the draining of the ...
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Big Green Valley
Didi mtswane weli
Merab Kokotschaschwili
SU (GE) / 1967 / 92 min
A cinematic meditation on nature: shepherd Sosana (Dodo Abashidze) lives in a remote valley far from the Soviet ideals of collectivization and progress. The current balance between man, wildlife and the surrounding countryside can no longer be ...
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Taming The Garden
MOTWINIEREBA
Salomé Jaschi
CH/GE/DE / 2021 / 90 min
The subtropical landscape of western Georgia is suddenly shrouded in a milky-white mist. The coordinate system of the scene is abruptly disturbed when a century-old tree in the sea cuts across the horizon. The ambitious project of an oligarch turns ...
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No Body And The Blue Sky
ARA WIN DA LURJI TSA
Magda Gvelesiani/ Leah Peirce
DE/GE / 2021 / 36 min
The river as a place that is social, poetic, and also one of resistance. This student film project follows the course of the Bzhuzhi River in Guria and creates a space that combines childhood memories with ecological and cultural issues.
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The Harvest
MOSAWALI
Misho Antadze
GE/US / 2019 / 70 min
Georgia is the world's third largest exporter of bitcoins. A gigantic electronic infrastructure is required for the production of the digital currency. In this way, regions such as the idyllic wine-growing region of Kakheti have become landscapes in ...
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LAND-WATER/ LAND UND LAND-WATER/ WATER
MITSA-TSKALI
Eka Tsotsoria/ Nino Gogua
GE / 2020 / 8/ 9 min
Land and water - mitsa-tskali - in Georgian denote more than just elements. Land-water is also the word for home. What happens when gigantic dam projects upset the natural balance between them and flood habitats? A close-up of Georgia's largest ...
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The Pipeline Next Door
MILSADENIS MEZOBLEBI
Nino Kirtadze
GE/FR / 2005 / 90 min
The Borjomi Valley in Georgia: home to mineral springs that have been bubbling away for centuries, in the 21st century it is to host streams of oil. Using all possible means, BP is pushing ahead with the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan ...
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