A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He...
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a...
A man whose parents were killed and whose estate was confiscated during Soviet times returns to his ancestral village to build a school for disabled children.
The film's characters are elderly people, one of whom lives in Georgia and the other in Israel. Both receive letters with the same content: a stranger asks them for financial help...
The main character is an executioner from the 1930s who carries out the sentences of the Triumvirate. The gravity of his case follows him everywhere - in his family, among his acquaintances, and does not give him rest, until he himself becomes a victim of the system he serves.
An absurdist allegory of the absorption of Georgia into the Soviet Union, a man's apartment is overrun by 'lodgers' who takeover the apartment, restrict his movements, and put him in a birdcage.
Success accompanies the quartet's performances. But the musicians are tormented by a feeling of dissatisfaction. They believe that when working in a team, they lose their individuality. The quartet finds itself on the verge of collapse. However, the tragic death of one of them forces them to...
Elder son Mikael lives with his family in a small Chechen foothill village. He has a love of art which he hopes to pursue, and a girl whom he wishes to marry. However, upon invasion by Russian forces for the second time, he must put those things aside and leave for the mountains to defend his...