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32 articles available in total starting from 13/02/2013. Last article published on 26/05/2025.

Review: Light Falls

Review: Light Falls

The latest directorial effort from cinematographer Phedon Papamichael tries to mask its ugly essence with lots of craft and style  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Review: Gondola

Review: Gondola

German filmmaker Veit Helmer continues his journey through poetic, silent cinema with a highly inventive, burlesque film full of charm and benevolent love  

06/11/2023 | Arras 2023

Luka Beradze • Director of Smiling Georgia

Interview: Luka Beradze • Director of Smiling Georgia

"I would like politicians to understand what these false promises do to the common people and change their attitudes"

The Georgian director breaks down his debut feature, which paints a delicate portrait of a part of his home country that is very beautiful but profoundly lonely  

11/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Special Screenings

Review: Smiling Georgia

Review: Smiling Georgia

In his debut feature, Luka Beradze takes a surreal and darkly funny story as the starting point for a moving portrait of bitterness and alienation in the Georgian countryside  

07/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Special Screenings

Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze and Taki Mumladze • Director of and actress in A Room of My Own

Interview: Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze and Taki Mumladze • Director of and actress in A Room of My Own

"This film was made thanks to the help of our friends, and our ambition is to be the voice of young people in Georgia"

The director and his lead actress and co-writer break down their new film, which has just screened in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival  

07/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Review: A Room of My Own

Review: A Room of My Own

Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze’s film proves that the biggest drama always happens in the smallest of places  

06/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Vahagn Khachatryan and Aren Malakyan • Directors of 5 Dreamers and a Horse

Interview: Vahagn Khachatryan and Aren Malakyan • Directors of 5 Dreamers and a Horse

“We decided to film three generations in order to come up with a portrait of this entire society”

The filmmakers talk about some of the ideas behind their movie, their relationship with the characters and the images of Armenian society that lurk behind their portraits  

03/05/2022 | goEast 2022

Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze  • Director of Otar's Death

Interview: Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze • Director of Otar's Death

"My film explores the phenomenon of making a profit out of an accident, a clash between city and village, and mother-son relationships in each of them"

The Georgian director discusses his first feature film, which homes in on a mother and son in the aftermath of a car accident involving the latter  

27/08/2021 | Karlovy Vary 2021 | East of the West

Review: Otar's Death

Review: Otar's Death

In his first feature, Georgian director Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze immerses the audience in the world of inaccessible mothers and emotionally stunted sons  

24/08/2021 | Karlovy Vary 2021 | East of the West

Alexandre Koberidze • Director of What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

Interview: Alexandre Koberidze • Director of What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

"The plan was to tell simple stories with simple methods and forms"

BERLINALE 2021: The Georgian director, responsible for one of the most acclaimed titles of this edition of the festival, discusses love, curses and film references  

08/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Competition

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