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Review | Repentance — an enduring warning about unchecked power
A single image from Repentance resurfacing at ongoing protests in Georgia captures the film’s critique of totalitarianism.
Tamar Agatha Kapanadze
Tamar Agatha is a human rights defender and civic activist from Tbilisi. Her main interests are women’s and LGBTQ+ rights. When not working on advocacy and justice, she can be found leading walking tours through Tbilisi’s winding streets, reading obsessively, or catching the latest performance at the theatre.
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Review | Dry Leaf — a Georgian masterclass on filming the unfilmable
Alexander Koberidze’s three-hour film tracking down football fields across rural Georgia is no ordinary road movie.
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Review | Prisoners of Conscience — Georgian filmmakers tell the stories of detained protesters
The short documentaries were screened at the London Georgian Film Festival the same day as Georgia’s controversial municipal elections.
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Review | My Grandmother — portraying the well-choreographed chaos of Soviet bureaucracy
Kote Mikaberidze’s 1929 slapstick satire My Grandmother is a brilliant piece of Soviet Georgian cinema still relevant today.ag
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Review | And Then We Danced — Georgian dance as queer resistance
Levan Akin’s 2019 queer love story feels as urgent as ever under Georgian Dream’s homophobic laws.
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Review | Dagny, or a Love Feast — a postmodern toast to myth and memory in Georgia
Zurab Karumidze’s postmodern novel turns Tbilisi into a stage where artists, revolutionaries, and mystics collide.
