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Browse 23 movies from Caucasus Cinema
A Hermit monk living in full harmony with divine forces, spreading light among the people below...
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A lonely man is silently longing for a companion, when a crack appears in his floor...
A group of wealthy people is sharing a bottle of wine on a beach, when one of them begins bidding...
A short impro made within Caucasus cinema togather with a bunch of lovely people.
May 2022
Communism, infidelity, reincarnation, cannibals with a taste for orthodox priests; all come together in this surreal, darkly humorous short. 'Although you keep insisting I refuse to admit I am the stinkbug', is film about four people in impossible situations realising they are God, and of course so is the stinkbug.
A man, a mop, and a longing for connection.
Nov 2025
An elderly woman offers tourists advice on taking selfies at a tourist trap in Georgia.
Sep 2025
A man dies, and no one knows where to bury him.
A meditation on insomnia and lucid dreaming, following one sleepless night where memory, dream, and waking life become impossible to tell apart.
May 2026
Short film about self-reflection.
Examining the Literal and Figurative Underbellies of the Fish-pain Debate - Essay by Vladic Ravich
A lonely stinkbug is crawling on a bookshelf, desperately looking for a man of her dreams.
The shoemaker mixes up the client's shoe bags and rushes to the real owner - the girl he falls in love with
Aug 2024
For their graduation day, a class of twelfth-graders are handed a camera by a stranger. What they film leads the school authorities to threaten her.
A chance encounter with a woman creating a seashell mosaic on the facade of a pharmacy in the coastal town of Ureki turned into a profound journey to the place of the artist’s strength and vulnerability.
In this experimental short, humans attempt to describe themselves to unseen extraterrestrial visitors. Through a blend of vulnerability, curiosity, and humor, the film explores what it means to inhabit a human body-and how strange that might seem from the outside.
Based on Niko Lortkipanidze’s novel "Georgia for Sale", the film portrays the painful and absurd reality of Georgia being treated as a commodity.
May 2024
A quiet, meditative portrait of the Tsova Tush language, now on the edge of extinction. Through moments of learning, landscapes, and the voices of different generations, the film reflects on memory, loss, and the fear of cultural erasure. The songs of elderly women carry the fragile echoes of a fading world.
A girl believes that by counting the stars the world will end. As she focuses her attention on the sky, she draws a strange pattern in the cycle of nature. Will her obsession become reality?
May 2025
"By the way, there's a Ukrainian family living in Kormagali," my friend Geo told me, which sparked my desire to make a film about them. But searching for this family raised more questions than answers. The main one was: Where is the Ukrainians house?