Nov 4 19:00   Amirani Cinema

Screen that disappeared and Visual Archive, A Window through the Past: A Portrait of life in the 90s 

The desire to visually capture and record current processes. Various attempts to perceive reality in a fragmentary, critical way, in depth or with humor. Football and its traces in current processes, in the formation of identity or feeling of commonality, the first national championship of Georgia, rows and empty counters, an interview with Merab Mamardashvili recorded before his death. Questions asked and raised in those films became our guide to reality. Voices and stories from the past return on the screen.

Film magazine "ADAMIANI DA KANONI / THE HUMAN AND THE LAW" N81 

dir: R. Khuntsoria, G. Rogava, V. Begoidze, Z. Purtseladze, G. Garsevanishvili, L. Bokeria

10 min / 1991 

About shops, queues, empty counters, the possibilities and impossibilities of selling products.

THE WAY HOME - MERAB MAMARDASHVILI 

dir. Nikoloz Drozdov 

19 min / 1990 

Mamardashvili's reflection on current processes, the film was shot directly before his death.

MEET OUR CHILDREN 

dir. Omar Gvasalia

24 min / 1988 

Interviews with young people about social issues, life, at the same time we observe how they have fun with skateboards.

DO WE NEED THE USSR CHAMPIONSHIP IN FOOTBALL

dir. Alexander Zhgenti

29 min / 1991  

In this film, there is a discussion whether we need the Soviet Union's championship in football or not. The first national championship of Georgia began on March 30, 1990. The role and place of football in the search for a country's identity and the unifying power of people.

TUESDAY Nov 12 19:00   Amirani Cinema

ZAHESI 708 

dir: Tamuna Karumidze

48 min / 2001 

In the time of post-Soviet political and socio-economic stagnation, Zaheri 708 is a bridge between the 1990s and 2000s. Made at the turn of the millenium, the film reflects on the longing to escape from the experience of the traumatic, dark nineties, to lay the foundation for a recent social order, and the process of realizing this desire. Tamuna Karumidze captures Tbilisi in transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first century with a free, breathing camera and depicts the insatiable desire of young artists to express themselves in a stagnant city living with the experience of the devastating 90s.

Q&A with the filmmaker

TUESDAY Nov 19 19:00   Amirani Cinema

Portraits of Women from the 90s (Part I)

Various women, unique portraits, political, realistic, exciting, poetic - with the ghost of struggle for survival, place, education, creativity from the 90s Georgian archive. Fragments of their existence, work, solidarity, art, various stories - with social accents and reflection on reality. Voices and stories from the past return on the screen.

I AM AND MY NABADI

Dir. Mikho Borashvili, I. Vachnadze 

10 min / 1990  

In the village of Samegrelo, women gather in the yard of the house and process wool. At this place you can see visualization of women's work and ordinary life, choreography of movements, conversations, fragments from their lives.

NINIKO

dir. Mikho Borashvili

10 min / 1990  

The story of a little girl from the village of Racha her portrait, routine, existence, coming to school, where she remains the only student in the class and all the teachers provide lessons for her.

PRIVILAGE WITHOUT PRIVILAGE 

dir. Nikoloz Kuzanov 

10 min / 1990 

Large families in Georgia, survey on the street and fragments from everyday life.

THE WINDOW

dir. Boris Margvelashvili 

20 min / 1990

Portrait of artist Ketevan Forakishvili, her art, working environment and her own reflection about life. Expressive portrait, with visual and acoustic experiments of the director.1

TUESDAY Nov 26 19:00   Amirani Cinema

THE BRIDGE 

dir: Nino Orjonikidze, Vano Arsenishvili

2005

The Bridge studies the traumatic experiences of war victims, the affective layers of these experiences and their impact on the post-traumatic lives of the characters by observing the Enguri Bridge and using various expressive methods. 

ALTZANEY

dir: Nino Orjonikidze, Vano Arsenishvili

2009

Altzaney is a portrait of an elderly woman in Pankisi Gorge who carries a role of a special mediator in patriarchal society and whose purpose in life is to solve the problems of others, to mediate.

Q&A with the filmmakers

TUESDAY Dec 10 19:00   Amirani Cinema

Portraits of Women from the 90s (Part II)

Various women, unique portraits, political, realistic, exciting, poetic - with the ghost of struggle for survival, place, education, creativity from the 90s Georgian archive. Fragments of their existence, work, solidarity, art, various stories - with social accents and reflection on reality. Voices and stories from the past return on the screen.

WOMEN

dir. Vazha Zubashvili 

25 min / 1990

Portraits of various women, their conversations, monologues and fragments from life. Portraits shown with ordinary routines and dreams, challenges, expectations, feelings and desires related to their lives. What do they think? What do they feel? How do they cope with reality in 90's Georgia.

MANDILOSNEBI / LADIES 

dir. Marina Gegenava 

10 min / 1985

The issues of women's work, existence, portraits, difficulties and challenges of the life of mothers with many children.

PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN 

Dir. Otar Gurgenidze

15 min / 1987 

Portrait of dancer Iamze Dolaberidze and his world.

TUESDAY Dec 17 19:00   Amirani Cinema

America in One Room

dir: Davit Kandelaki

53 min / 2007

America in one room tell about an innocent Georgian convict in an American prison, in which the director captures the psycho-emotional portrait of a man who escaped the trauma and disorder of the 90s and the absurdity of his situation by synthesizing the voice of the character trapped in four walls with footage of New York.

SCREENING CANCELED DUE TO CRISIS IN THE COUNTRY

OF COURSE TO AMERICA!

dir. Nino Purtskhavenidze, Pieter Jan Smit

76 წთ / 2009

In the film "Of course, in America" ​​(Nino Furtsvanidze, Peter Ian Smith, 2009), in which breaking the borders is synonymous with overcoming trauma and hopelessness, starting life anew, the process of entering the USA illegally, establishing oneself in the reality there, and the bureaucratic difficulties associated with emigration are described with special nuances, affective-emotional vicissitudes.

MONDAY Dec 30 19:00   Amirani Cinema

POWER TRIP

dir: Paul Devlin

85 min / 2003

Power Trip bridges 1990s and 2000s made at the turn of the millennium, reflecting the longing to escape from the experience of the traumatic, dark nineties, to lay the foundation for a recent social order, and the process of realizing this desire. Paul Devlin concentrates on the difficulty of lack of electricity and describes the process of overcoming this problem in a nuanced audiovisual style. The film follows AES-Telasi American employees who are trying to make a business amidst unpaid electricity bills, wide-spread corruption and a challenge of uninterrupted power supply.

Q&A with cinematographer, editor and Georgian producer of the film Valeri Odikadze