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Review | Hotel Metalurg — illustrating the loss that never fades
The quiet and compassionate documentary Hotel Metalurg is less about losing a home than about learning, painfully, how to live without one.
1992–1993 War in Abkhazia
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Review | Self-Portrait Along the Borderline — exploring identity and belonging amidst conflict
Anna Dziapshipa’s 2023 collage documentary invites the viewer into her own story, examining personally what it means to be an Abkhaz–Georgian woman.
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Review | The Kartli Kingdom — a heartfelt examination of Georgia’s IDP housing crisis
This French–Georgian co-production observes a close-knit community of IDPs from Abkhazia residing in an abandoned Soviet-era resort in Tbilisi.
Music
‘Sokhumeli Bichi’: Tamada and DillaNext on the unspoken identity of Sukhumian IDPs in Georgia
Georgian artists Tamada and DillaNext discuss their latest single and what it means for them to Sukhumian.
Georgia
UN General Assembly passes resolution on right of return for Georgian IDPs with record support
Unlike previous years, Syria opted to abstain, rather than vote against the resolution.
Abkhazia
Ethnic Georgian Russian citizen expelled from Abkhazia after filming video
In the video, Otari Kobakhidze spoke about the expulsion of his family from Abkhazia during the war in the 1990s.
1992–1993 War in Abkhazia
Russia demands removal of Shamil Basayev photo from Abkhazian museum
Abkhazia’s State Museum has closed its modern history wing after the Russian Embassy reportedly demanded the removal of a photo of Chechen rebel commander Shamil Basayev. On Tuesday, the Russian Embassy in Abkhazia told RBK that they had submitted a complaint to Abkhazia about the photo, and that the museum intended to ‘rectify the current situation as soon as possible’. The complaint comes at a low point of relations between Abkhazia and Russia, and follows Russia’s decision to cut fundi
