Manuchar Shervashidze

The screenplay for Khibula was inspired by the real events taking place in Georgia briefly after the country regained its independence in 1991. Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the first president of Georgia, elected by the majority of votes, was driven into exile by coup d'etat. Even though he returned to regain power soon after, political clashes once again forced him to flee into the mountains. Based on the final chapter of the first President's life, the film starts off by following his journey accompanied and pursued by both friend and foe.

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Eighteenth century. Georgia weakened by external and internal wars. The main characters of the film sacrifice their lives to establish peace between separate corners, to fight for spirituality. They die, but their legacy - songs, wall paintings, cultural monuments - survive the ravages of time.

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Ochabamba is a holy island. According to the legend, it’s where the souls of deceased sailors settle.

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Ordinary resort life is going on in the Georgian seaside town. But something new is already in the air - the 90s are on the threshold.

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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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The shooting of "Mevludi", one of the cult movies of the Georgian Cinema, was started in 1984 by "Kartuli Film". The film is dedicated to the local "Adjara" people, who cannot get used to the Russian management style and the arbitrary practices of the Russian rulers, after the Russian-Ottoman war in 1878. The Russian propaganda edition 'Acar' people, en masse, leaving the country are forced to emigrate to Turkey. Some of those who remained, on the other hand, found the last resort to go up the mountain and become bandits against the Russian rule, due to the injustice and unbearable conditions they faced. In the film, the life of the local hero Mevludi Disamidze, which coincides with his immigration period, is about.

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A recluse living in the Channel Islands develops an obsession with the ward of wealthy steam engine enterpreneur Mess Lethierry, his niece Deruchette, in the 1820s.

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The film recounts a meeting between veterans of the WWII at the site of former battles.

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Major Zaza is investigating a routine criminal case: murder for the purpose of robbery. However, his adversary is cunning and ruthless, a dangerous and cynical repeat offender nicknamed “The Intellectual.” Exposing this cunning criminal is proving difficult.

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Growing up in Soviet Tbilisi, Lado moves through strict school days, developing a quiet crush on a classmate, and spending a summer in a seaside town that tests loyalty, friendship, and the limits of growing up under authoritarian regime with his uncle and best friend.

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Iato runs away from home to replace the unknown singer in music band which causes concern for her older sister and attracts the attention of the police.

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Lado and Tengiz dream of going to the Batumi Naval Academy, They even take exams, but only Lado manages to pass them. Tengiz continues to dream but lies to his family that he also passed the exams and tries with Lado's help to try again to get into the academy.

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Arsena got tired of being a farmer, decided to go to Batumi and start working on a ship. Arriving in Batumi, he encounters a film crew that urgently needs a rescuer. But Arsena can't adjust to the restless life of the film crew, he misses the village, and when this "experienced sailor" almost drowns at sea because he doesn't know how to swim, he has no choice but to return home.

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The film is based on a story by the renowned Czech writer Karel Čapek, which the filmmakers adapted to the everyday life of the region of Samegrelo in Western Georgia. Samegrelo is home to the “world record in throwing,” but the film’s protagonist only achieves this feat after being verbally insulted.

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The story is based on Konstantine Gamsakhurdia's novel and depicts the social and political changes taking place in Soviet Georgia in the 1930s through the line of the main characters: Tarash Emkhvari and Arzakan Zvambaya.

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The film tells the life of a Georgian woman from 1920s to the present day. Love, marriage, Russian annexation and collectivization, world war, loss of children - Sidonia went through many sorrows and troubles on her way of life, but she always maintained spiritual courage and hope for the future.

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The film delves into the moral dilemmas of human relationships. An old sailor, the sole survivor of a ship that sank during the war, grapples with the weight of a moral compromise made many years ago. As he reflects on his past, he recalls his carefree life, filled with mistakes, and the crime he committed against the captain of the lost ship.

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