Cinema of Georgia explained

Cinema of Georgia
Screens:	23 (2017)^[1]
Screens Per Capita:	0.7 per 100,000 (2017)
Distributors:	^[2]
Produced Year:	2011
Produced Ref:	^[3]
Produced Fictional:	12 (85.7%)
Produced Animated:	-
Produced Documentary:	2 (14.3%)
Admissions Year:	2010
Admissions Ref:	^[4]
Admissions Total:	144,039
Admissions National:	66,200 (46.0%)
Box Office Year:	2010
Box Office National:	GEL 626,000 (50.1%)

The cinema of Georgia has been noted for its cinematography in Europe. Italian film director Federico Fellini was an admirer of the Georgian film: "Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing."^[5]

Notable films

See also: List of Georgian films.

• 1912
  • Journey of Akaki
• 1942
  • Giorgi Saakadze
• 1947
• 1948
  • Keto and Kote
• 1955
  • Magdana's Donkey
• 1956
• 1958
• 1959
• 1960
• 1961
• 1962
  • Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion
• 1964
  • Father of a Soldier
• 1965
• 1968
  • Unusual Exhibition
• 1969
  • The Right Hand of the Grand Master
  • Don't Grieve
  • Pirosmani
• 1970
• 1973
  • The Eccentrics
  • Melodies of Vera Quarter
• 1975
• 1976
  • The Wishing Tree
• 1977
  • Butterfly
  • Mimino
• 1978
• 1979
• 1980
• 1982
  • Kukaracha
• 1983
  • Blue Mountains
• 1984
• 1987
  • Repentance
• 1990
• 1992
  • The Sun of the Sleepless
• 1994
  • Iavnana
• 1996
  • A Chef in Love
• 1998
• 1999
  • Here Comes the Dawn
• 2000
  • 27 Missing Kisses
• 2001
  • The Migration of the Angel
• 2005
  • A trip to Karabakh
  • Tbilisi, Tbilisi
• 2007
  • The Russian Triangle
• 2008
  • Three Houses
  • Mediator
• 2009
  • The Other Bank
• 2010
  • Street Days
  • Chantrapas
• 2011
  • Salt White
  • Born in Georgia
  • The Watchmaker
• 2012
  • Keep Smiling
• 2013
  • Tangerines
  • Blind Dates
  • In Bloom
• 2014
  • Corn Island
  • Brides
  • Tbilisi, I Love You
  • Line of Credit
• 2015
  • Moira
  • God of Happiness
  • The Village
  • The Summer of Frozen Fountains
• 2016
  • House of Others
  • Khibula
• 2017
  • My Happy Family
  • Scary Mother
  • Hostages
  • Dede
  • Namme

Notable filmmakers

Georgian cinematography's reputation has been built by known cinema directors such as:

• • Vasil Amashukeli Alexandre Tsutsunava
• Nikoloz Shengelaia
• Mikheil Chiaureli
• Mikhail Kalatozov
• Revaz Chkheidze
• Tengiz Abuladze
• Eldar Shengelaia
• Giorgi Shengelaia
• Otar Ioseliani
• Mikheil Kobakhidze
• Sergei Parajanov
• Lana Gogoberidze
• Goderdzi Chokheli
• Temur Babluani
• Dito Tsintsadze
• Nana Jorjadze
• Zaza Urushadze
• Giorgi Ovashvili
• Levan Koguashvili
• Nana Ekvtimishvili
• Rusudan Chkonia
• Zaza Rusadze

From 2012, the main focus of Georgian cinema is supporting script writing and European co-productions.^[6]

See also

• Cinema of the world
• List of Georgian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Bibliography

• Lauren Ninoshvili, Ph.D.: Singing between the Words: The Poetics of Georgian Polyphony, New York: Columbia University, 2011,

External links

• Georgian National Film Center

Notes and References

1. Web site: Table 8: Cinema Infrastructure - Capacity. UNESCO Institute for Statistics. 5 November 2013. 24 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181224225516/http://data.uis.unesco.org/?ReportId=5542. dead.
2. Web site: Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel). UNESCO Institute for Statistics. 5 November 2013. 24 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181224225508/http://data.uis.unesco.org/. dead.
3. Web site: Table 1: Feature Film Production - Genre/Method of Shooting. UNESCO Institute for Statistics. 5 November 2013. 26 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181226145107/http://data.uis.unesco.org/?ReportId=5545. dead.
4. Web site: Table 11: Exhibition - Admissions & Gross Box Office (GBO). UNESCO Institute for Statistics. 5 November 2013. 25 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181225053209/http://data.uis.unesco.org/?ReportId=5538. dead.
5. Web site: FILMFESTIVAL: NEW GEORGIAN CINEMA at TOFIFEST Film festival in Poland (tofifest.pl). georgien.blogspot.ca. 30 January 2018. 18 June 2010.
6. Book: Smith, Ian Hayden . International Film Guide 2012 . 2012 . 978-1-908215-01-7 . 122 .