Journey to Sopot

📅 March 29
🎬 Director: Nana Jorjadze
📽 1980 | 29 minutes

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Proektsia 24 presents a new program titled “Origins of Contemporary Georgian Cinema.” The program introduces audiences to the artistic path of Georgian filmmakers, their visions, and their perspectives on the social and cultural environment of their time.

The journey through the films begins in the late 1970s, a period when the foundations of Georgian cinema of the 1980s were being formed. In the works of representatives of the so-called “lost generation,” it becomes possible to analyze shared cinematic language, artistic forms, and reflections on the surrounding world.

Of course, each filmmaker presents an individual perspective and narrative approach. However, watching these films together allows audiences to discuss the common characteristics and artistic features that unite this generation of filmmakers and, more broadly, define Georgian cinema of the 1980s.

The aim of the program is to follow Georgia’s path toward independence, examining this story both as a journey from point A to point B and as the development of artistic expression and cultural context that later shaped contemporary Georgian cinema.

We believe that revisiting and reinterpreting this period is an important step toward better understanding the present forms of Georgian culture and cinema, their contexts, and the shared challenges they address.

The program begins on Sunday, March 8, featuring special guests and an opportunity to watch and discuss both well-known and lesser-known films together.