Special Programs in Focus
The Color of PomegranatesBlood-red pomegranates dripping on a white cloth, we hear a poignant monologue: “Life and soul are tortures to me.” Elaborate yet stationary images of suppressive religion and thea...
Special Programs in Focus
The Legend of Suram FortressBased on a Georgian folk tale of people building a fortress against the enemies, which collapses before completion. A message tells them a boy should be locked inside the wall aliv...
Special Programs in Focus
Ashik KeribA minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant’s daughter. He goes on a journey to marry her, promising to return in 1000 days after traveling to the end of the world. S...
Special Programs in Focus
Arabesques on the Pirosmani ThemeDocumentary short film by Sergei Paradjanov, representing the director′s personal view on the Heritage of the Georgian autodidact primitivism painter of the 19th century, one of th...
Special Programs in Focus
Parajanov: The Last Spring
Parajanov’s last days recorded by his old friend and filmmaker Mikhail Vartanov. It is a valuable opportunity to see the footage from Parajanov’s unfinished last work
Special Programs in Focus
Father of a Soldier
Director Rezo Chkheidze, decided to restore the film in colors because it was originally projected a color film but could not afford to cover the expenses.
World Cinema
Night of SilenceAn older man recently released from jail after serving his sentence takes a fourteen-year old girl whose face is hidden under a veil as his bride. Their family has arranged this ma...
World Cinema
Eat Sleep DieRa?, a twentysomething muslim immigrant working at a salad packing plant, is laid off one day and enforced to face the real world. She is an expert in cutting vegetables, but witho...
Gala Presentation
Dangerous Liaisons
A Window on Asian Cinema
Mekong HotelIt is believed there is a broad range of ghosts In Thailand, one of them being Pob, which lives on human organs. Near the Mekong River at the Thailand-Laos border, there is nothing...