Books
მერვე სიცოცხლე (ბრილკას) / Eighth Life (Brilka)
A book that captures you as one. The voice of the 31-year-old author is already one of the most powerful and impressive in today's German literature: Nino Kharatishvili skillfully connects the soul-stirring life of a Georgian family with the history of revolutions of the twentieth century. A novel of the century that will make you want to read and a strong young woman who broke free from the male society of her homeland. A large-scale historical novel, as full of human tragedies as real life.
ალი და ნინო / Ali and Nino
"Ali and Nino" is an amazingly romantic and impressive novel by the Azerbaijani writer Kurban Said. The novel tells the love story of Ali Shirvanshir, a young man of Azerbaijani aristocratic origin, and Nino Kifiani, the daughter of a Georgian prince, which develops against the background of the First World War and the revolution.
დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა / Grandmaster Constantine's right hand
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia's historical novel "The Right Hand of Grandmaster Constantine" perfectly presents the era of the Georgian Renaissance, a harsh century full of contradictions, conflicts and "dark nights".
ვეფხისტყაოსანი/ Vefkhistkaosani
The Vefkhistkaosani is the only poem of the 12th century Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli that has reached us. It consists of prologue, main part and epilogue. In terms of content, Vefkhistkaosani is a complex work; Two parallel stories are told here - of Arabia and India, although both of them are related to each other. The poem is rich in characters. It is written in the Shire style, in sixteen-syllable meter.
Films
მანდარინები / Mandarinebi
The plot of the film takes place during the war in Abkhazia, although the film does not depict war scenes. It tells about the Estonians living in Abkhazia. During the war, the Estonian authorities evacuated the Estonians living there from Abkhazia, but some of them chose to stay in Abkhazia of their own accord. Two residents remained in the village. After the clash between the Georgians and the Chechens, one of the Estonians, Ivo, shelters his enemies on the brink of death: a wounded Georgian volunteer warrior and a hired Chechen militant.
ქუჩის დღეები/Street Days
Levan Koguashvili's lightly humorous yet realistic drama about the fate of a generation left behind in Georgia's post-Soviet era. "…in the gritty, low-key realism of its strong performances, "Street" finds an absorbing mix of comic anguish and twisted hope -- especially in the devastating self-knowledge of Kotetishvili's gaze."
ჯარისკაცის მამა/ Jariskatsis Mama
Summer of 1942. The elderly Georgian farmer Giorgi Makharashvili learns that his son, Goderdzi, is wounded and was taken to a hospital. Giorgi is setting forth to visit his son. While he was getting there, the son had recovered and sent off to the front. Giorgi decides to stay in the army and successfully gets enlisted to the motorized units. Together with his comrades in arms, he goes to Germany. He finds his son's tank brigade was the first to cross the river. There is a fight in a building between the Soviets on ground level, and Germans on the second level, as the Soviets try to liberate the blockaded soldiers on the third level. Giorgi hears his son, and tries to save him.
ფესვები/Pesvebi
Giorgi leaves his country in search of a job and settles down in France. He doesn't loose hope that one day he will return to his homeland, his "roots".
