Georgia
‘A guilty society’ — Ketevan Vashagashvili on breaking taboos through film under Georgian Dream
Her debut documentary, 9-Month Contract, cuts through society’s willful ignorance of Georgia’s problematic surrogacy industry.
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Reviews
Review | I Had A Dream — a personal story about the last speaker of Ubykh
This film tells a deeply personal story from the point of view of the granddaughter of the last speaker of Ubykh, an extinct Caucasian language.
Reviews
Review: Prayer of the Outsiders — blending contemporary art and cultural heritage
Centred around historic prayer rugs, this exhibition celebrates Azerbaijani cultural heritage in Georgia and the women artists behind it.
Armenia
Buckets, sticks, and stories — Inside Armenia’s woman-led tradition khabukhaz
Khabukhaz is a woman-led milk exchange now only practiced in a few villages in Armenia’s Shirak province.
Reviews
Review | Small Town of Anara — a subversive Soviet Georgian exploration of drinking culture
Georgian director Irakli Kvirikadze’s 1976 film turns a drinking tradition into a portrait of a society trapped in itself.
Abkhazia
How Georgian artist Tedo Rekhviashvili smuggled an Abkhazia piece into Nauru’s Biennale pavilion
Rekhviashvili, whose family is from Abkhazia, tells OC Media how he slipped the piece into the exhibition of a microstate that recognises Abkhazia.
Kabarda–Balkaria
Director Sokurov snubbed at Venice Biennale after criticism from Russian and Ukrainian activists
The director worked in the North Caucasus for many years and founded a film workshop in Nalchik whose graduates include Kantemir Balagov and Kira Kovalenko.
