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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 | Blueberry Dreams — A contemplative look at the dreams and struggles of a Georgian family
Elene Mikaberidze’s first full-length documentary is a warm, funny, yet bittersweet slice of life.
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Review | Smiling Georgia — a tragicomic documentary on the wounds left behind by electoral theatre
Luka Beradze’s first full-length film offers a deeply human and surprisingly funny portrait of broken promises and political manipulation in Georgia.
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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.
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A new wave of queer Georgian film under threat
As Georgia’s government intensifies its campaign against queer representation and activism, a new wave of films showcasing queer Georgian stories are under threat. In the years since Levan Akin’s gay romance And Then We Danced (2019) took Georgia and the indie film circuit by storm, at least a dozen films dealing with queer issues in Georgia — which one survey found to be the most homophobic country in Europe — have been released, including six since the start of 2023. Akin’s latest, Cros
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‘Georgian cinema is in danger’: filmmakers take on the culture ministry
Since mid-June, Georgian filmmakers and their supporters have been protesting a ‘reorganisation’ of the country’s National Film Centre by the Ministry of Culture, warning that it aims to extend full government control over the country’s cinematic output. ‘Censorship’ is the word that Gaga Chkheidze uses to describe the Ministry of Culture’s reforms at the Film Centre. Chkheidze is the founder of the Tbilisi International Film Festival and a former board member of the Georgian Film Developm
