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.
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.
Reviews
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.
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Review | Tesnota — a taut portrait of Jewish diaspora life in the North Caucasus
This unsettling domestic drama is an admirable directorial debut from dissident Kabardian director Kantemir Balagov.
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Review | The Pomegranate Orchard — a restrained Azerbaijani retelling of Chekhov’s classic play
Ilgar Najaf's second film is an understated and elegantly-paced domestic tragedy.
