Movies: Tamar Skhirtladze

A passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, the film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak....

Fed up with caprices of her employer's wife, Lia becomes a driver of architect Giorgi. Soon she falls in love with him, but different social status is an obstacle for their relationship....

A young woman's passion has a remarkable effect on a Russian village in this comedy-drama with fantasy elements. Sybill (Nino Kuchanidze) is a teenager who is sent to a small town in the country to spend the summer with her aunt. Despite her tender...

This somber story of love lost forever is set against the backdrop of the changes that Communism brought to the state of Georgia in the former USSR after the 1917 Revolution. Eva and Archil are deeply in love and they pledge to be with each other alw...

Adaptation of three short stories by Ray Bradbury. An atmosphere of hostility forms inside an unnamed city, and the citizens are unsettled by the materialization of ghosts and the memories of their loved ones....

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In Russia at the turn of the century, a wealthy Jewish merchant enjoys the best of relations with his Russian neighbours, while his respected home forms the obvious social centre of the entire community. However, the atmosphere grows more tense as th...

Second World War. The fascists attack Svaneti. Old Betkili, whose son was killed in the war, lives far from the village. The old man comes across a Soviet soldier, Lasha, and shelters him in the mountains, but soon finds the soldier’s behavior suspic...

The film is based on a real story. Climbers found the purse of a military postman killed during World War II, letters sent 30 years later....

A poor, fatherless young man loves the daughter of a wealthy family, the woman's parents are opposed to their marriage. When the village was threatened by cholera, the couple managed to sneak away from their parents at night and marry....

A group of rebel peasants rebels against the Menshevik government. They are led by Parnaoz Morchadze. Their uprising fails. The rebels take refuge in the forest. Parnaoz is eventually brutally murdered. Red Army units enter the city. In the street, c...

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza arrive in Georgia to free Prometheus - the same Amiran, who is chained in the Caucasus Mountains. They meet the local prince Luarsab and go with him in search of Amiran. Their journey is both funny and sad. They try to es...

A story about a friendship between eleven years old Niniko and a dolphin named Metichara....

The police warn the editorial staff that if their forgotten motorcycle does not cover three thousand kilometers in ten days, it will be confiscated. No one knows how to ride a motorcycle except for intern Sandro. Sandro joins his friend Mito and gran...

A love story about a boy's spiritual world. He is forbidden to be a believer and ridiculed for his religion. The situation takes place in the communist era, when Christianity was persecuted....

Tbilisi, early 1980s. From the outside, everything seems calm, but behind this tranquillity there is turmoil. Manana, who used to be a movie star, is no longer remembered by any director. Her childhood friend Rusudan suffers from loneliness despite a...

A man whose parents were killed and whose estate was confiscated during Soviet times returns to his ancestral village to build a school for disabled children....

Life in a Georgian village as seen from the perspective of a 10 year old girl....

Butterflies die if you move them elsewhere. But artists without a living can’t stay together in their commune in Tbilisi forever....

Follows the deportation of Karachays, which took place at the end of World War II. The film's director, himself a Karachay, tried to convey the experiences of people, life and culture, considering it important to make people realize what that did to ...