Amidst the economic collapse of the post-Soviet era, three generations of Georgian women live together in Tblisi, each hanging on the arrival of the latest letter from the beloved man of the family who works clandestinely as a labourer in Paris. It is only when the two younger women recieve word that Otar has died that things become more complicated, as they wrestle with the dilemma of whether to tell his dotting mother. Since Otar Left is a beautifully realised human drama. find out more...

War in Georgia, Apkhazeti region in 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.

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The mythical "Colour of Pomegranates", the life of 18th century Armenian poet Sayat Nova, (included in Time Out's 100 greatest all time movie list), double-billed with the "Legend of the Suram Fortress", a Georgian myth about a young boy who saves the constantly crumbling Suram Fortress by allowing himself to be covered with earth and eggs and walled up alive. Eloquent images and obscure symbols constructed in striking tableaux vivants, emblematic gestures or formalised movement. Beautiful, surr find out more...