Armenia
Jennifer Lopez’s meals during two-day visit will cost Armenia $37,000
Despite being announced in April, it was not until late July that news spread that the concert was being sponsored from the state budget.
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Review | Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry — an honest portrait of Georgian womanhood
Elene Naveriani’s latest film is a beautiful story of finding and embracing your true desires in the most unexpected ways.
Pankisi Valley
The last women performing Zikr in Pankisi — Georgia’s sacred Sufi chants edge toward silence
In Georgia’s Pankisi Valley, a sacred Sufi ritual endures — led by elderly women, the chants may soon fall silent with no one left to follow.
Reviews
Review | Air Blue Silk — a melancholy debut about social alienation in Georgia
Air Blue Silk focuses on two individuals living still, lonely lives in a city that is quickly and haphazardly being redeveloped before their eyes.
Pankisi Valley
Inside the Pankisi brewery making traditional Chechen fruit-based non-alcoholic beer
Kisturi Draft reimagines a time-honoured tradition in Georgia’s Pankisi Valley — non-alcoholic rosehip and hawthorn berry ‘beer’.
Georgia
Between the beats: Live music in techno-driven Tbilisi
Tbilisi’s nightlife isn’t just techno. Meet the bands fighting for space in the city's vibrant, overlooked, and ever-evolving live music scene.
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Review | 5 Days of War — an offensively bad depiction of the August 2008 War
Renny Harlin’s film combines the worst elements of Hollywood action-movie cliches along with a substanceless explanation of the events themselves.
