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- DirectorRezo ChkheidzeStarsSergo ZakariadzeVladimir PrivaltsevAleksandr NazarovAn old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front lines. Reluctant to return home empty-handed, he tries to follow and find him.
- DirectorTengiz AbuladzeStarsAvtandil MakharadzeZeinab BotsvadzeIa NinidzeVarlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.
- StarsOtar MegvinetukhutsesiTengiz ArchvadzeJüri JärvetA just man becomes an outlaw. He is pursued by the police over the years, while he tries to fight the injustice in the world, but he can't figure out the minds of his fellow men, and is often misunderstood.
- DirectorTemur BabluaniStarsElguja BurduliDavid KazishviliLia BabluaniAbout a doctor named Gela Bendeliani (Elgudzha Burduli) and his wealthless family in Tbilisi in Soviet Georgia. In the film Gela Bendeliani has an unlimited capacity for generosity and forgiveness.
- DirectorTengiz AbuladzeStarsLika KavzharadzeIosif JachvlianiZaza KolelishviliThis film is about psychology of people, about lonesome persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic dreams...
- DirectorEldar ShengelaiaStarsRamaz GiorgobianiVasil KakhniashviliTeimuraz ChirgadzeAn author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
- DirectorGiorgi ShengelaiaStarsAvtandil VaraziDodo AbashidzeZurab KapianidzeThe story of self-taught Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani.
- DirectorDimitri BatiashviliStarsGia PeradzeGuram ChelidzeT. ChichuaUpon release from an alcohol rehab center, a good-natured middle-aged man tries to find work and settle down.
- DirectorGiga LortkipanidzeStarsGiorgi KhobuaKetevan KiknadzeGia BurjanadzeZaza Nakashidze is imprisoned for a murder he never committed. While in jail he tries to prove his innocence and with other prisoners, real murderers and thieves, dreams of freedom.
- DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsLembit UlfsakElmo NüganenGiorgi NakashidzeIn 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.
- DirectorGuguli MgeladzeStarsDodo AbashidzeIosif JachvlianiLevan AbashidzeGiorgi 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".
- DirectorGiorgi ShengelaiaStarsOmar PkhakadzeLevan TedaishviliMikheil SaladzeThis film tells the story fighters who are fighting against the feudal order in Georgia.
- DirectorEldar ShengelaiaStarsVasili ChkhaidzeDato JgentiAriadna ShengelaiaIn the pursuit of happiness orphan Ertaoz left for city, where he fell in love with pretty Margalita and went to jail to save her. There he met his future teacher Qristepore who dreamed of building flying machine and they broke the prison.
- DirectorEldar ShengelaiaStarsGuram LortkipanidzeValentina TelichkinaVasili ChkhaidzeBack from the war, a promising sculptor Aguli gets married and while in the need to make for living becomes stuck in daily routine. Thus, he fails to create something special, but his apprentice is a new hope.
- DirectorTengiz AbuladzeStarsSergo OrjonikidzeSesilia TakaishviliAleksandre JorjolianiGrandma Olgha up-brings orphan Zurikela in poverty. Their struggle for life is being relieved by support of their kind neighbors, Iliko and Ilarion, whose merit is the exceptional sense of humor.
- DirectorTengiz AbuladzeRezo ChkheidzeStarsDudukhana TserodzeLiana MoistsrapishviliMikho BorashviliSmall Georgian village (ca. 1890) Magdana a widow lives in a shack with her 3 children and ekes out a living selling yogurt. When the children find a donkey lying by the road and nurse it to health, it seems the family's troubles are over.
- DirectorIrakli KvirikadzeStarsBukhuti ZakariadzeHenrieta LejavaVakhtang SulakvelidzeGogia buys a new jug in anticipation of the wine harvest, but his daughter accidentally breaks it, leading to comic complications.
- DirectorValerian KvachadzeStarsKarlo SakandelidzeGivi BerikashviliZurab LaperadzeCo-villagers lead secretly into scrooge-type Elibo's wine-cellar, but good wine makes them to sing loudly and awaken Elibo joins to thieves feast.
- DirectorMikheil ChiaureliStarsSofiko ChiaureliGiorgi ShengelaiaAkaki KhoravaDetermined to marry pretty Tasia, prince Avtandil abducts her from her wedding upon the pretext that she will be his maid. To save Tasia, his bridegroom's friends negotiate with the oppressor prince, but his is not enough.
- DirectorGeorge OvashviliStarsTedo BekhauriTamar MeskhiArchil TabukashviliA young refugee and his mother flee war and ethnic cleansing in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, leaving his father behind. After arriving in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, the young boy encounters difficulties with his mother, and begins a lonely journey back to Abkhazia to find his father.