
Review | The Cage is Looking for a Bird — a Chechen tale of women’s agency
Malika Musaeva’s film is an uncompromisingly depressing look into how little agency young women in the North Caucasus have in their own lives.

Malika Musaeva’s film is an uncompromisingly depressing look into how little agency young women in the North Caucasus have in their own lives.

The quiet and compassionate documentary Hotel Metalurg is less about losing a home than about learning, painfully, how to live without one.

Anna Dziapshipa’s 2023 collage documentary invites the viewer into her own story, examining personally what it means to be an Abkhaz–Georgian woman.

Georgian films are failing to reach local audiences, largely due to weak infrastructure, monopolies, political pressure, and limited distribution.

Ana Urushadze’s 2017 debut film follows a Tbilisi housewife whose secret manuscript unravels the fragile architecture of family life.

George Sikharulidze’s feature debut explores the fractured dual life of a Tbilisi teenager caught between religious surveillance and repressed desire.

Otar Iosseliani’s 1970 film is a poetic wander through the absurdity of life.