Georgia - The Film Verdict

9-Month Contract

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 21, 2025 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2025, Spotlight |

Shocking but sensitively handled, Ketevan Vashagashvili’s debut doc ‘9-Month Contract’ exposes exploitative practices in Georgian surrogacy agencies through one woman’s risky reality.

Imago

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 18, 2025 | Cannes 2025, Festivals, Sarajevo 2025 |

In the gorgeously subtle and poetic doc ‘Imago’, Déni Oumar Pitsaev visits Pankisi to explore what kind of home it can be for the dreams of Chechnya’s displaced.

Temo Re

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 3, 2025 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2025, Verdict Shorts |

This Marker-esque monochrome photomontage adapts its protagonist’s docufiction memoir into a slyly funny sketch of a struggling actor in contemporary Tbilisi.

Blueberry Dreams

Posted by Carmen Gray | Oct 26, 2024 | Festivals, Leipzig 2024 |

Elene Mikaberidze’s wry, sensitively humane and politically layered debut doc explores precarity on Georgia’s border via one family’s blueberry farm venture.

Panopticon

Posted by Carmen Gray | Jun 30, 2024 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary 2024 |

George Sikharulidze’s debut on masculinity and identity in today’s Georgia is an unusual coming-of-age drama alive with ideas and a bold political imagination.

Tag: Georgia

9-Month Contract

Imago

Temo Re

Blueberry Dreams

Panopticon