Every Monday at 7 pm at Amirani cinema

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From November 3 to December 29, DOCA presents a program of fiction and documentary films focused on contemporary auteur cinema.

Curator’s note:

“The films presented in this program offer an opportunity to reflect not only on what cinema shows us, but on how it shows it. A documentary shot, which seems to capture reality, can become the basis for a fictional story, while a fictional scene can serve as the most accurate document of experiences that cannot be conveyed through facts alone.

At the boundary between documentary, fiction, and experimental forms, a space is created where we, as viewers, become participants in the film rather than mere observers. Here, form is not decoration; it becomes a tool for understanding - how the camera creates illusions, how it relates to time, how montage shapes meaning, and what kind of sound tells the story. In these films, the author occupies a central role with their distinctive vision, strong cinematic language, and innovative and unconventional choices.

The films in this program come from different countries and cultures. Some were shot on iPhones, others with so-called low-resolution cameras, and some even with webcams. They speak different languages but share a common question: how can the language of cinema convey what words cannot?

With this program, DOCA continues its tradition of remaining a space where the exploration of form is not only an aesthetic, but also an ethical and political act, since form always expresses a position - how we see the world and how we want it to be.”

Forms - Contemporary Author Cinema

films

03/11/25 19:00 Amirani Cinema

Georgian Premiere

April

Dir: Dea Kulumbegashvili

2024 124'

GE SUB: ENG

Nina is a gynecologist in a small town in Georgia who also helps women protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies. But when a newborn dies during one of her patients’ deliveries, her professional and moral integrity comes under intense scrutiny. Rumors accuse her of performing illegal abortions.

The film premiered in the main competition section of the Venice Film Festival 2024

10/11/25 19:00 Amirani Cinema

SLEEP HAS HER HOUSE

Dir: Scott Barley

2017 90'

GE SUB: ENG

Scott Barley’s Sleep Has Her House is a recent landmark of experimental cinema, combining the movements of landscape cinema and slow cinema to create a careful, meditative experience of nature and its observer. Through the manipulation of light and time, the film explores the relationship between humans and their environment, deepens our perception of nature, and gives viewers a broader, richer way of seeing the world.

17/11/25 19:00 Amirani Cinema

NEPTUNE FROST

Dir: Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams

2021 86'

Sub: wind ENG

Neptune Frost is an Afrofuturistic sci-fi musical that tells the story of the resistance put up by a rebel community. Set against a backdrop of political violence, economic injustice, and cultural alienation, a collective of hackers attempts to overthrow the authoritarian regime and create a space that fosters imagination and solidarity.

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was screened at various other film festivals, including Sundance, New York, and Toronto.

24/11/25 19:00 Amirani Cinema

FOUR DAUGHTERS

Director: Kaouther Ben Hania

2023 100'

ARABIC Sub: ENG

Four Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania tells the story of Olfa, a Tunisian mother of four daughters, whose life is marked by light and shadow. When her two eldest daughters disappear, Olfa is left to face their absence, grief, and many unanswered questions. To explore their story, Ben Hania invites professional actors and creates a unique cinematic structure to unveil the story of Olfa and her daughters.

The film closely examines motherhood, memory, and intergenerational dynamics, revealing how social and political forces shape women’s lives.

Four Daughters premiered in the Official Competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, winning the L’Œil d’Or, and was later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, alongside several other international awards.

01/12/25 19:00 Amirani Cinema

MEDUSA

Dir: Chloé Malcotti

2021 72'

SUB: GEO/ENG

In 1913, a soda factory was built in the village of Rosignano, Italy. For more than a hundred years, the production of this material has left a deep mark on the bodies and souls of its inhabitants. The place slowly became enveloped in a strange, intense, sterile, and corrosive white haze.

The film tells three different stories created by the director together with the villagers. Together, they guide us along the path of this mysterious color: a group of teenagers evokes a lost golden age; then comes a tale about a petrified body; and lastly, the story of a lover and her memory.

08/12/25 19:00 Amirani Cinema

EUREKA

Dir: Lisandro Alonso

2023 147'

SUB: ENG

Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso returns with a new feature film after ten years. Alonso’s cinema is unique; his early films laid the foundation for minimalist “Slow Cinema” in the 2000s. However, in his last two films (Jauja (2014) and Eureka (2023)), he moves into a seemingly unknown, imaginative territory.

Eureka is a cinematic tale of transformation in three parts, connected through a cosmic, post-colonial dream logic. The film combines elements of realism and magical realism, grounded in an aesthetic of observation and contemplation.

The film premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

15/12/25 19:00 Amirani Cinema

Georgian premiere

What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov?

Dir: Faraz Fesharaki

2024 81'

SUB: ENG

“What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov?” is the directorial debut of Faraz Fesharaki. Georgian audiences know him as the cinematographer of Alexander Koberidze’s “What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?”

The film explores the relationship between the director and his parents. A family story seen through the lens of a webcam, between Isfahan and Berlin. And the camera sees it all: the strange snowfall in Isfahan, the director’s mother recounting her time in prison, and the father insisting on hearing his son’s dream from the last night.

Despite the pain of leaving home and family tensions, the director focuses on what remains unbroken - the love that endures even across distance.

The film premiered in 2025 in the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival.

22/12/25 19:00 Amirani Cinema

Georgian Premier

CITY CHILD

Dir: Austin Lynch

2025 60'

SUB: ENG

In City Child, Austin Lynch works with cinema’s fundamental elements - light, shadow, sound, and time. The result is a mesmerizing, atmospheric film that is neither documentary nor fiction, but a space that envelops you, much like the blue twilight settling over Berlin in the evening.

Every image and sound in the film is crafted with an exquisite sense of line, form, and space. The elements come together into an audiovisual whole that has found its physical, almost sculptural, form.

29/12/25 19:00 Amirani Cinema

Tbilisi premiere

DRY LEAF

Dir: Alexsandre Koberidze

2025 183'

SUB: ENG

Dry Leaf is one of the most significant works and a fresh breath in contemporary world cinema. The director’s visual poetics resist the overly controlled and polished aesthetics that dominate much of cinema today. In search for a lost woman, the film gradually transforms into a continuous meditation on the interplay between reality and imagination, on the boundaries between the visible and the invisible.

Koberidze treats cinema as an act of observation, not as a tool for interpretation or explanation, but as a space where time, sound, and light themselves create meaning. In this sense, Dry Leaf is both a critique of the standardized forms of contemporary cinema and a celebration of cinema itself, one that remains full of continuous discovery.

We would like to thank Amirani cinema for providing the cinema for the Film Club.