Reviews
Review | Tbilisi Open Air: Intergenerational sympathy
Guili Chokheli and Nani Bregvadze’s appearance in the all-Georgian line-up of Tbilisi’s Open Air Festival 2025 closed the gap between generations of Georgian musicians.
Lily Samarine
Lily grew up in London and graduated in 2023 with a degree in French and Russian. She has worked in publishing, translation, and for too long as a waitress. She moved to Tbilisi in September 2024, and is over the moon to be involved with OC Media. She aspires to have written a novel by 2025.
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Review | The Embroidered Kheberi: Adjarian Women’s Heritage — Between Myth and Contemporary
Irma Sharikadze’s exhibition, consisting of cloth, film, and sculpture, showcases the rich but endangered Adjarian tradition of embroidery.
Georgia
What to expect from Tbilisi Open Air 2025?
This year, the biggest music festival in the South Caucasus will take place 24–25 May with an all-Georgian lineup.
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Review | Dead Souls’ Vacation — a tragicomic documentary about maternal love
Keko Chelidze’s 2020 documentary gently and considerately explores the unusual relationship between a Georgian mother and her musician son.
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Review | Cold as Marble — a disappointing erotic thriller from Azerbaijan
After a promising start, Azerbaijani director Asif Rustavmov’s sophomore film Cold as Marble comes to an unsatisfying climax.
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Review | Flight from the USSR — a fictionalised take on a harrowing attempt to escape Soviet Georgia
In a slightly uneasy blend of fact and fiction, Turashvili recounts the true and tragic story of a group of disaffected Soviet Georgian youth.
