CATALOGUE

Yaara Vey is a romantic film which is about a girl’s journey of self-discovery. She experiences new things in life that change her perspective towards love.

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What happens when the imagination puts the mind into the unreal borders of false fear, the world around transforms into prison, and the only way out seems to be an escape to the new imagination, to the visual creation of the mind. 

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The single mom Anna is forced to take three then four jobs to support herself and her austistic son who lives in a children’s home, and when the whole thing becomes too much to bear she decides to leave Georgia and travel to the US. But it’s easier said than done getting tickets and the fake visa she needs. The contact seems to have something to hide, and when the relationship with him falls apart, Anna panics and kidnaps his daughter. In the middle of everything Anna enters a relationship with a young man in the area where she lives.

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We see Roelofs at public appearances in Georgia, alongside her husband and children in promotional films, and with her parents back in the Netherlands, where she reflects on an eventful life and marriage. Saakashvili himself frequently appears on-screen, and the material we see clearly illustrates the painful process of transformation from passionate idealist to slick politician.

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A deadpan, picaresque buddy comedy about two old friends through a series of urban adventures, loosely connected by the skull of an executed French aristocrat. Winter Song is a typically irreverent Iosselianian jaunt through a classy Paris apartment block contemplating the past, present and future.

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Dmitrij has recently returned to his small Georgian hometown after graduating from a university abroad. His monotonous days drag on, between working and the solitary rock-climbing excursions.

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Alex and Nica are young, in love and engaged to be married. The summer before their wedding, they are backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia. The couple hire a local guide to lead them on a camping trek, and the three set off into a stunning wilderness, a landscape that is both overwhelmingly open and frighteningly closed. Walking for hours, they trade anecdotes, play games to pass the time of moving through space. And then, a momentary misstep, a gesture that takes only two or three seconds, a gesture that’s over almost as soon as it begins. But once it is done, it can’t be undone. Once it is done, it threatens to undo everything the couple believed about each other and about themselves. 

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Nicolas is an artist, a filmmaker who merely wants to express himself and whom everyone wishes to reduce to silence. When he first starts out in Georgia, the “ideologists” hope to gag him, concerned that his work does not follow the set rules. In the face of their determination, Nicolas leaves his homeland for France – the land of freedom and democracy. But the “state of grace” will not last long.

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Marie is a girl who has a vivid imagination. On the flat island of Texel, she dreams about mountains and even collects pictures of them. She would rather like to do something with her life instead of marrying Paul, the beachcomber’s son. But, being the only girl in a big and poor family during war time, she doesn’t seem to have much of a choice. The relationships and positions are tightened even more by the reality of war. Marie tries to outlive this reality by dreaming. 

The Salzlipp twins grow up without their father. The boy and the girl are convinced he is an important superhero secret agent. But when he eventually comes home, it turns out that he is but a puny, insignificant meteorologist who had been innocently languishing in jail. The children refuse to accept that this is their father. And sexy Mrs. Salzlipp has fallen in love with another man. But Salzlipp fights back. He discovers that he can influence and indeed manipulate the weather. He can turn summertime into deep frost. Magic! As with Dostoyevski’s Idiot there’s more to Salzlipp than meets the eye. Maybe he can use his gift to win back his family? An imaginative tale about love and respect in a romantic seaside setting.

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“Like Air To Breathe” is a musical journey to Georgia, a land with an intensely cultivated musical culture. While researching, Ruth Olshan takes a music-ethnological trip. She looks over the shoulders of a men’ choir, women’s choir and dance ensemble, listens to traditional melodies, but also directs her microphone and camera at Georgia’s modern music. A singer says singing is like “the air she breathes”; the film also shows the difficult living conditions in Georgia.

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GEORGIAN LOVE SONG

A young German music agent is looking for talented young musicians in Georgia, where she enters into an affair with her translator in Tbilisi. Back in Germany, the career-oriented woman takes up her usual life, but suddenly her lover appears in Munich and turns her life planning upside down. Convincingly played romantic comedy with satirical tips on the western yuppie mentality, which contrasts an emotional Eastern European mentality with an objective lifestyle.

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Vera Putina at 77 years of age is typical of the Russian women of her generation. What makes her different is that in 1999, she recognized President Vladimir Putin as the son she thought was lost forever. Did Vera’s son really become the President of Russia? For her it is beyond doubt, and her daughters and the other villagers of Metechi, Georgia, are equally sure that the ten-year old who disappeared so long ago is now the President. 

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The one joy in the lives of a mother and daughter comes from the regular letters sent to them from Paris from the family’s adored son, Otar. When the daughter finds out that Otar has died suddenly, she tries to conceal the truth from her mother, changing the course of their lives forever.

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The poor wretch Abesalom is in love with beautiful Lisa. But her family has other plans. They want her to tie the knot with Ilja, the director of a bra-factory. Abesalom’s only chance to come up her families expectation and to be with Lisa is to become rich. Luck is with the lovers and Abesalom wins the lottery. In order to receive his fortune he has to travel to the city.

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FIRING RIFLES IN THE AIR