26/05/25  19:00  Amirani Cinema

INNER BLOOMING SRPINGS

dir: Tiku Kobiashvili

2025 43' GE

Georgian with English subtitles

In 2024, protests are held on the streets of Tbilisi against the so-called “Foreign Agents” law. Tina, Luka, director Tiku and their friends also take part. They resist by being there for one another – gathering courage for what lies ahead.

The film was premiered at Berlinale Film Festival.

+ Q&A with the filmmaker

02/06/25  19:00  Amirani Cinema

Hall 1. Georgian premiere

TEMO RE

dir: Anka Gujabidze

2025  50'  GE

Georgian with English subtitles

Temo is an unemployed actor who drives around 100km a day on a scooter, performing the duty of a delivery man. Based on the novel Courier’s Tales by Temo Rekhviashvili, who plays himself in the film, Anka Gujabidze crafts a poignant but humorous black and white photo adventure, in which a daily ride through the opulently dilapidated Georgian capital Tbilisi morphs into a nightmarish vision of poverty, corruption and estrangement.

– Ivan Ramljak, IFFR

Temo Re is a winner of the Rotterdam International Film Festival in the short film catagery.

+ Q&A with the filmmaker

09/06/25  19:00  Amirani Cinema

Short films by Vajiko Chackhiani

Little and Big Hands

2025  25'  GE

+ Q&A with the filmmaker

16/06/25  19:00  Amirani Cinema

HOLY ELECTRICITY

dir: Tato Kotetishvili

2024  95'  GE/NL

Georgian with English subtitles

When young Gonga and his cousin Bart find a suitcase full of rusty crosses in a scrap yard, Bart gets the idea to turn them into neon crucifixes and sell them door-to-door to the inhabitants of Tbilisi. Their crusade through the suburbs of the city becomes a quest for love and friendship.

Award winner at Locarno International Film Festival

+ Q&A with the filmmaker

23/06/25  19:00  Amirani Cinema

AIR BLUE SILK

dir: Irine Jordania

2024  84'  GE

Georgian with English subtitles

Two strangers, on parallel paths, each travel their transformative journeys of liberation.

Deeply shaken, Eka isolates herself when her aunt, who often calls her for one-way chats via voicemail, commits suicide abroad. Niko builds an AI ‘friend’ immersing himself in his apartment. These two worlds touch briefly, only to pull apart into self-imposed loneliness…and the city flows endlessly just outside their windows, breathing life into existence.

+ Q&A with filmmakers

30/06/25  19:00  Amirani Cinema

Short film program

Georgian with English subtitles

WE ARE THE HOLLOW MEN

dir: Rati Oneli

2023  13'  GE

WHAT DOES THE MUD WHISPER

dir: Dea Tcholokava

2025  18'  GE

EL FLOR DEL CAMINO

dir: Giorgi Parkosadze

2025  15'  GE/HU/BE/PT

INHALE

dir: Melana Sokhadze

2024  13'  CH/GE

BURNING SUN

dir: Nutsa Tsikaridze

2024  16' GE

+ კითხვა-პასუხი რეჟისორებთან

07/07/25  19:00  Amirani Cinema

LIMITATION

dir: Soso Dumbadze, Elene Asatiani

2023  126'  GE

Georgian with English subtitles

The film is composed entirely of archival footage found online and tells the story of the armed conflict that broke out between political forces in Tbilisi in 1991.

Thirty years later, the film Limitation invites the viewer to revisit these events from Georgia’s recent history and poses a central question: to what extent is it possible to revise history through archival material?

The film premiered at IDFA Main Competition

+ Q&A with the filmmakers

14/07/25  19:00  Amirani Cinema

NATIONAL EXAMS

directed by Giorgi Mrevlishvili

2023  76'  GE

Georgian with English Subtitles

Nana Mgaloblishvili is a Georgian language teacher at Chokhatauri Parish School. On April 9, 1989, during the brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration for Georgia's independence by the Soviet Russian army, she narrowly escaped death but suffered severe poisoning. In her classroom, Nana bridges the past and the present, where literature and history intertwine with the realities of today. Her lessons become both a reflection and a prophecy, guiding her students as they prepare for their national exams.

+ Q&A with the filmmaker

21/07/25  19:00  Amirani Cinema

POWER TRIP

dir: Paul Devlin

2003  85'  EN

Georgian with English subtitles

Power Trip bridges 1990s and 2000s made at the turn of the millennium, reflecting the longing to escape from the experience of the traumatic, dark nineties, to lay the foundation for a recent social order, and the process of realizing this desire. Paul Devlin concentrates on the difficulty of lack of electricity and describes the process of overcoming this problem in a nuanced audiovisual style. The film follows AES-Telasi American employees who are trying to make a business amidst unpaid electricity bills, wide-spread corruption and a challenge of uninterrupted power supply.

+ Q&A with cinematographer, editor and Georgian producer of the film Valeri Odikadze

28/07/25  19:00  Amirani Cinema

CHE

directed by Alexander Koridze

2003  30'  GE  with English Subtitles

The so-called “Rose Revolution” took place in Georgia in 2003. Youth movement “Kmara” was one of the most active participants in the events that unfolded. Che shows the movement’s activities during the times of the revolution. 

THE LEADER IS ALWAYS RIGHT

directed by Salomé Jashi

2010  43'  GE with English Subtitles

Thousands of children and young people have visited the “patriotic summer camps” supported by a programme of the Georgian government since 2005. As well as sunshine, countryside and fun and games, the young visitors undergo brainwashing that sends them home as fervent patriots. 

+ Q&A with filmmakers