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Review | My Happy Family — what passes for women’s joy in Georgia
My Happy Family is a portrait of a middle-aged Georgian woman who dares to get a room — and a life — of her own.
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Review | In the Mountains. He — a comedic ode to the Caucasus mountains
Balkar director Said Tolgurov’s second film works to ground the viewer through the breathtaking, mountain landscape of Kabarda–Balkaria.
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Review | Salt for Svanetia — Kalatozishvili before Kalatozov
Long before Mikheil Kalatozov became a master of Soviet cinema, he made a Georgian film the regime could not forgive.
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Review | Jocasta: Raw Material — a feminist comparison of two civil wars
Mariam Megvinyte’s latest play contrasts Thebes’ fall in the Oedipus cycle with the Georgian Civil War, all via a feminist perspective.
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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.
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Review | Thus Spoke the Wind — an Armenian drama that favours art over substance
Russian director Maria Rigel’s latest film is a disappointingly slow-moving look at Armenian society that is more incomprehensible than enlightening.
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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.
