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Cinema of Georgia
Apollo Cinema in Batumi
No. of screens	23 (2017)
• Per capita	0.7 per 100,000 (2017)
Main distributors	Fox (London) 25.0% Buesta Vista Song Pictures 19.0% Warner Bros 13.0%
Produced feature films (2011)
Fictional	12 (85.7%)
Animated	-
Documentary	2 (14.3%)
Number of admissions (2010)
Total	144,039
National films	66,200 (46.0%)
Gross box office (2010)
Total	GEL 1.25 million
National films	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."

Notable films

• 1912
  • Journey of Akaki
• 1942
  • Giorgi Saakadze
• 1947
  • Akaki's Cradle [ka]
• 1948
  • Keto and Kote
• 1955
  • Magdana's Donkey
• 1956
  • Bashi-Achuki [ka]
  • The Scrapper (film) [ka]
• 1958
  • Mamluk
• 1959
  • Maia of Tskneti [ka]
• 1960
  • Groom without a Diploma [ka]
• 1961
  • The Story of a Destitute [ka]
• 1962
  • Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion
• 1964
  • Father of a Soldier
  • Khevisberi Gocha [ka]
• 1965
  • Another Time [ka]
• 1968
  • Unusual Exhibition
• 1969
  • The Right Hand of the Grand Master
  • Don't Grieve
  • Pirosmani
• 1970
  • Feola
  • Kvevri (film) [ka]
• 1973
  • Stealing the Moon [ka]
  • The Eccentrics
  • Melodies of Vera Quarter
• 1975
  • The First Swallow [ka]
• 1976
  • The Wishing Tree
• 1977
  • Butterfly
  • Mimino
  • Racha, My Love! [ka]
  • Stepmother of Samanishvili [ka]
• 1978
  • Data Tutashkhia
• 1979
  • Imeretian Sketches [ka]
• 1980
  • An Unserious Man [ka]
  • Everyone Needs Love (film) [ka]
• 1982
  • Kukaracha
• 1983
  • Blue Mountains
• 1984
  • Chiora [ka]
• 1987
  • Repentance
• 1990
  • The White Banners [ka]
• 1992
  • The Sun of the Sleepless
• 1994
  • Iavnana
• 1996
  • A Chef in Love
• 1998
  • The Lake [ka]
• 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
  • My Wife's Girlfriends in Cinema [ka]
• 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

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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.

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, ISBN 978-1-124-33459-2

References

1. ^ "Table 8: Cinema Infrastructure - Capacity". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
2. "Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
3. "Table 1: Feature Film Production - Genre/Method of Shooting". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
4. ^ "Table 11: Exhibition - Admissions & Gross Box Office (GBO)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
5. "FILMFESTIVAL: NEW GEORGIAN CINEMA at TOFIFEST Film festival in Poland (tofifest.pl)". georgien.blogspot.ca. 18 June 2010. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
6. Smith, Ian Hayden (2012). International Film Guide 2012. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-908215-01-7.

External links

• Georgian National Film Center

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