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Review | A Room of My Own — queerness and constraint in Georgia
A Room of My Own is an intimate but unfinished portrait of female friendship, desire, and self-discovery in contemporary Tbilisi.
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 | A Dog in Georgia — a journey that never finds its way
While promising a story of self-discovery amidst Georgia’s political turmoil, this novel instead makes Georgia feel more like a convenient backdrop.
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Review | Hotel Metalurg — illustrating the loss that never fades
The quiet and compassionate documentary Hotel Metalurg is less about losing a home than about learning, painfully, how to live without one.
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Review | Some Interviews on Personal Matters — a Georgian woman, uninterrupted
Some Interviews on Personal Matters is a pioneering work of feminist filmmaking and an intricate, intimate portrait of womanhood.
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Review | Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird — Georgia’s overlooked masterpiece
Otar Iosseliani’s 1970 film is a poetic wander through the absurdity of life.
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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.
