Tamar Skhirtladze

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

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Merab, a devoted dancer, has been training for years with his partner Mary for a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble. The arrival of another male dancer, Irakli, sparks both an intense rivalry and romantic desire that may cause Merab to risk his future in dance as well as his relationships.

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The film describes the original story. Heart + Ltd. is an organization that helps desperate and hopeless people win over the hearts of people they love.

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A young woman's passion has a remarkable effect on a Russian village in this comedy-drama with fantasy elements. Sybill is a teenager who is sent to a small town in the country to spend the summer with her aunt. Despite her tender age, Sybill is ripe and sexually aware, and while the initial object of her attention is Alexander, a widower in his early 40s, she instead pairs up with Mickey, Alexander's teenage son. Mickey quickly becomes infatuated with Sybill and is more than happy to indulge her fondness for outdoor lovemaking. Between Sybill's carefree, youthful sensuality and the appearance of Emmanuelle at the local movie house, suddenly love and lust are in bloom all over town.

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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 establish justice, help everyone, but their actions are incomprehensible to the population. They encounter cruelty, indifference, categoricality... However, they also meet good people.

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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.

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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.

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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 him and his people.

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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 the local authorities come under pressure to fall in line with the officially sanctioned anti-Semitic policies of the Tsarist Government. The village elder is one of our hero's best friends and together they seem to find a way to outwit these evil intentions but unfortunately they fail to understand what forces they are dealing with in a country where anti-Semitism is state policy.

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The tradition of bloodletting remains insurmountable in many nations today and ruins people's lives.

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A young man from a Christian family falls in love with a Muslim girl who lives behind the mountains in a village. The girl's relatives believe that according to Islamic tradition, a relationship between them is impossible, and they kill the young man.

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A film about the life and work of 19th-century Georgian writer Egnate Ninoshvili. Biographical moments from the writer's life are closely intertwined with the plots and characters of his own works.

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Reflection on the relationship between the world and humanity. A journey in the 20th century, in a specific time and specific space.

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A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea. The film's title is taken from the book of the same name by Miguel Unamuno.

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

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Three short films combine gentle Georgian humor and the absurdity of everyday situations. "Tedo" is about the consequences of an older football fan's passion for wrestling competitions, "Grazioso" is about a maestro conductor and football, and "The Misery of Old G.D." is about what happens when bread is not delivered to a bakery on time.

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

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A teenager finds himself against natural disasters. This fight forces him to become adult.

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The village of Chokhi had decided to marry Shete to a girl from another village, but the bride refused. The offended village people send their women as spies, the men arm themselves and follow them to take revenge. They are accompanied by a writer collects people's stories along the way.

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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 successful scientific career. Manana's aunt, Matiko, mourns her late husband. Her daughter, 19-year-old Salome, and her friends are also facing life's difficulties. Through strange coincidences, the lives of the film's characters become intertwined...

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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.

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Follows the usual working day of the chairman of the city Executive Committee Ramaz Pavlovich Avaliani. Different people come to his office with different goals, and he tries to help everyone, understand all requests, and resolve all disputes.

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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 always. After they marry, Archil dies suddenly and Eva is left alone and childless. Along comes the ruthless Spiridon who romances Eva and marries her - though his cold and cruel spirit break Eva's naturally buoyant self, until she sullenly eats alone, and avoids intimacy with her husband as much as possible. They adopt a daughter, who does not take sides between her glum mother and silent father. When the Communist cadres enter their village to promote the ideals of the October revolution, Eva starts to warm to her husband a little because he joins in that movement. Then her husband commits the fatal error of revealing a previous crime - an error that will later cause their grown daughter to question her parents' strange behavior.

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A young female film director Nino is shooting her first film, it will be about Tusheti. However, everything is not easy for Nino: the death of his mother, a serious love disappointment, and the usual everyday adversities. Interest and support are only in creativity.

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The young King Parnavaz expelled the conqueror Azon from the Georgian lands and became the first king of the united kingdom of Eastern and Western Georgia.

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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 suspicious.

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The piglet became famous throughout the village for his tricks. Having spent time with him, the owners, Marta and her son Kukuri, took the prankster to Tbilisi to the bazaar.

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Otar Nizharadze is an unrelenting fighter against the corruption, fraud, and crookedness reigning in the society.

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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.

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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 grandfather Ardalion and sets off on a journey. Many interesting adventures await them on the way...

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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, comrades mourn Parnaoz, who did not live to see the victory.

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