Darejan Kharshiladze

A Day Longer Than Night

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.

Full Circle

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...

Loma, The Forgotten Friend

Giorgi follows his son's request and goes to the city to spend the winter. Only Loma, Giorgi's Caucasian shepherd remains in thedeserted village.

Loma

The film continues the story of " Loma, The Forgotten Friend" and tells about the fate of the dog after he lost his owner.

Georgians in the Sky

The Messenger of God appears to the passengers of the plane and asks each of them about their sins. An extreme situation reveals the hidden nature of people.

Bata Qeqia

Bata, orphaned by her mother, has gone through a long way of life, and witnessed a lot - the fall of feudalism, revolution, and changing times. He got married and raised nine children, but his love for the girl from his village followed him until the end of his life.

Subordination

The film depicts one of the most terrible and painful problems of Georgian reality - drug addiction. The heroes gradually lose their perception of reality and time. Everyday life becomes unbearable and unbearable, eventually the heroes will face the harsh reality.

Forced Migration of Butterflies

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

In Mid Wickedness

Experimental short film based on the original play 'THE FORTY' by Howard Barker.

Chiatura

A cable car operator launches a personal battle against the entire city of Chiature, Georgia, after her husband is killed in an mining accident.

Lady Inmate

In every situation, in every kind of loneliness a woman is a woman. This film is about every woman, who have a hard life, life of difficulties, but never forget that she's a lady.

The Return

A young man escapes from prison three months before his release, but after communicating with his father and friends decides to declare himself to the police...

The Fog

Boy’s first encounter with human cruelty occurs as hunters kill and skin a bear. The gruesome scene sparks physical disgust, spiritual anxiety, profound guilt, and growing alienation from the adults.

Scary Mother

A 50-year-old housewife, Manana, struggles with her dilemma - she has to choose between her family life and her passion, writing, which she had repressed for years - she decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing to it mentally and physically.

19th-Century Georgian Chronicle

A poetized chronicle of the events taking place in one of the Georgian villages in the late 19th century, when, to save a forest, the innumerous intelligentsia could rally the people and oppose the industrialists…

Hostages

Soviet Georgia, 1983. Preparations for Nika and Ana's wedding are in full swing and it's a big day for both of their elite families. For the newlyweds and their friends, however, the celebrations are in fact part of a cover-up, as they plot an audacious escape from the Soviet Union.

Cinema

At the end of the 20th century, the son of a distinguished family, Sosiko Cholokashvili, became interested in cinematography, a field unknown to the public. Despite his inexperience, financial difficulties, and disappointment, one of the first enthusiasts of Georgian cinema recorded many shots depicting the appearance and existence of old Tbilisi on tape.

The Waltz on the Petschora

Set in 1937 Stalinist Georgia, the film traces the parallel destinies of a mother, condemned by the government as "an enemy of the people" and exiled to a work camp in Siberia, and her daughter, who meanwhile is sent to an orphanage. Arriving at the overcrowded work camp, the mother and other women who are not considered strong enough to be labourers, must journey still farther, crossing the icy Siberian landscape in search of food and shelter. At the same time, the daughter escapes the orphanage and returns to her former home, where she finds that a KGB officer has taken up residence. He protects her and an uneasy rapport between them develops—one of abhorrence and attraction, need and suspicion.

Anthim the Iberian

Anthim the Iberian - Antimoz Iverieli, a Georgian theologian, scholar, calligrapher, philosopher and one of the greatest ecclesiastic figures of Wallachia, led the printing press of the prince of Wallachia, and was Metropolitan of Bucharest in 1708-1715.

Svani

In Svaneti, the mountainous region of Georgia, there is the Jachvliani clan tower known to have shown an angel figure of white smoke. At these times the tower inhabitants always prayed as the angel was believed to protect them. One day a man from another clan was killed in the tower and the angel has never made its appearance since.

Izzy and the Magician

After a strange event, when the film's big characters become smaller, they begin an investigation and come to an interesting answer...

Song About Arsena

The story of the robbery, betrayal, and death of Arsena Odzelashvili, a famous robber, protector and supporter of the poor, based on a folk poem.

Phone of Kindness

The film tells the story of an organization whose employees help the population via videophone, but because of this, they themselves encounter problems.

Beginning of the Road

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.

A Crime Has Been Committed

Against the backdrop of facts taken from modern reality, the idea is advanced that youth should actively participate in building society, and feelings of complacency and irresponsibility are condemned from a civic standpoint.

A Difficult Beginning

A new principal is appointed at a boarding school. He will have to solve many problems before he can earn the children's trust.

Leonardo

The film depicts the story of Leonardo's death in grotesque ways. Relatives begin the traditional preparations for the funeral, while the "deceased" archaically "walks" through the city streets, watching with interest the preparations for his own funeral.

Rejected

A fellow villager takes away Bakha's fiancée. In order to seek revenge, Bakha asks the Kists for help. The Bakha community decides to cut off the village due to its connection with the Urzhuls.

Paths in the Sky

Guram is the pilot of the helicopter that flies on the Telavi-Omalo air route, connecting this mountainous region with Bari.

Memory

The film's protagonist, a young journalist, returns to the village where he spent his childhood years years later. The village is almost deserted, and the last inhabitants are thinking about leaving for the bar. Gogi begins a fight to preserve the once populous and prosperous village.

Tragedy Without A Hero

Debut short film by Revaz Nasidze, Based on Niko Lortkiphanidze's Novel "Tragedy Without A Hero"