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Review | Nail in the Boot — Kalatozov’s futile plea to the Soviet authorities
Famed Soviet director Mikheil Kalatozov’s 1931 film was banned upon release, just like his better-known Georgian documentary, Salt for Svanetia.
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Review | Small Town of Anara — a subversive Soviet Georgian exploration of drinking culture
Georgian director Irakli Kvirikadze’s 1976 film turns a drinking tradition into a portrait of a society trapped in itself.
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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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Opinion | Reflecting on the complex legacy of Patriarch Ilia II
The long-serving head of the Georgian Orthodox Church has left behind an ‘epochal, unique, and contradictory’ legacy.
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How the tragedy of the mandarin mirrors Georgia’s democratic demise
Unlike the celebrated wine industry, the mandarin is not an ancient Georgian tradition but rather a manufactured Soviet tool hanging by a thread.
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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 | Ravens Before Noah — a bleak yet poetic look at survivors of the Armenian Genocide
Susanna Harutyunyan’s 2015 novel eloquently captures the traumas remaining amongst survivors of the Armenian Genocide.
