Georgian cinema has a quietly singular tradition, shaped by the poetic realism of directors like Otar Iosseliani and Tengiz Abuladze, whose Repentance (1984) became a landmark of late Soviet filmmaking. More recently, documentary work such as City of the Sun has drawn international attention to Georgian storytelling. Have a browse through Macca's reviews below.
Rating: 3.0★
The cover art had me completely fooled. Something about the imagery suggested I was in for a horror film, the kind that lingers in your peripheral vision and makes you uneasy in the dark. So when Antoneta Kastrati's Zana revealed itself to be something else entirely, something far
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment early in And Then We Danced where a veteran instructor tells the young dancers that traditional Georgian dance contains no love, no sensuality, no individual feeling. It should be rigid, precise, masculine. And you immediately understand the trap that the film is setting, because everything
Genre Documentary
★★ — City of the Sun (2017)
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