
‘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.

Her debut documentary, 9-Month Contract, cuts through society’s willful ignorance of Georgia’s problematic surrogacy industry.

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.

Centred around historic prayer rugs, this exhibition celebrates Azerbaijani cultural heritage in Georgia and the women artists behind it.
Khabukhaz is a woman-led milk exchange now only practiced in a few villages in Armenia’s Shirak province.

Georgian director Irakli Kvirikadze’s 1976 film turns a drinking tradition into a portrait of a society trapped in itself.

Rekhviashvili, whose family is from Abkhazia, tells OC Media how he slipped the piece into the exhibition of a microstate that recognises Abkhazia.

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.