01/06/2026 19:00  Amirani Cinema

9 Month Contract

Director: Ketevan Vashagashvili

79’ / 2025 / Georgia, Bulgaria / Germany

Homeless single mother Zhana becomes a surrogate to create a better life for her daughter, Elene, which forces her to make an extreme sacrifice of her own body. Elene grows up and realizes the cost of her mother's choice. The film shows the mother-child bond with exceptional precision and asks the question - where does the limit of maternal self-sacrifice lie?

08/06/2026 19:00  Amirani Cinema

Nobody in Sight

Director: Kote Kalandadze

75' / 2025 / Georgia / France

42-year-old Achiko lives alone in the suburbs of Tbilisi and has been enrolled — together with his brother Goga in the state substitution therapy program for the past decade. The system provides a fixed routine, yet offers no real hope for recovery. In his own way, Achiko tries to cope with daily hardships and crushing loneliness, while his biggest supporter is his 8-year-old niece, Elene. Achiko's every attempt to get back on his feet — whether applying for social support or trying to find a job — hits a wall, yet he refuses to give up. As the war in Ukraine rages on and Georgia stands at a crossroads, Achiko wonders if anything could still change the course of his life.

15/06/2026 19:00  კინოთეატრი ამირანი

How to Talk with Lidya

Director: Rusudan Gaprindashvili

72 min. / 2025, / Germany / Georgia,

“How to Talk to Lydia?” tells the story of Damian, a 24-year-old Moldovan migrant who travels to Germany for work. In a vast logistics warehouse, his every move is directed by an artificial voice named Lydia. Within this sterile environment, where people, machines, and algorithms function in perfect rhythm, Damian gradually begins to lose his sense of individuality.

22/06/2026 19:00  Amirani Cinema

Comfort  Limit

Director: Alexandre Koridze

70’ / 2025 / Georgia

Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Russian citizens chose Georgia as a temporary or permanent refuge. This process made the existing historical and political tension between Georgia and Russia even more apparent. Against the backdrop of a complex geopolitical situation and internal political instability, Georgia's already fragile democracy faces growing pressure and uncertainty.

29/06/2026 19:00  Amirani Cinema

Georgian Animation in focus

The recently produced Georgian animated films featured in the program allow us to observe Georgian animation in both contemporary and traditional forms.

06/07/2026 19:00  Amirani Cinema

I was Thinking of You

Director: Maka Gogaladze

60’ / 2025 / Georgia

The archival footage depicts everyday life in Kutaisi during the 1990s. This transitional period, as seen through the lives of citizens, politicians, artists, and journalists, reveals the acute and difficult challenges the country faced.

20/07/2026 19:00  Amirani Cinema

A Fire There

Director: Marlene Edoyan

93’ / 2026 / Armenia, Canada

An impressionistic portrait of life in an Armenian village in southern Georgia, this intimate film follows three friends on the cusp of adulthood, caught between tradition and the desire to forge their own path.

13/07/2026 19:00  Amirani Cinema

The Kartli Kingdom

Director: Tamar Kalandadze, Julien Pebrel

2025 / 104' / Georgia / France

Kartli is the name of an old sanatorium in Tbilisi. Disused, it houses refugee families of the 90’s wars. But the building falls apart. Residents demonstrate, nothing changes. Kartli is a palace of life and death where dreams of a promised land go away.

27/07/2026 19:00  Amirani Cinema

Georgian Video Art

Georgian video art is, at first sight, poetic and ephemeral, but also closely connected to the country’s social and political realities. Its development reflects the changes and crises Georgia has experienced since its independence. Today, it is especially important to examine moving-image storytelling from a historical perspective in light of the current crises.

The program is presented by Alexi Soselia and Giorgi Spanderashvili, founders of the Georgian video art archive Video.Image.ge.