Georgian Cinema: Highlights from the BAMPFA Collection

October 29-November 27, 2022
Among the treasured special collections within our film archive are the rare and distinctive holdings of Georgian cinema produced during the Soviet era and since the country’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. This series features works by leading auteurs Tengiz Abuladze, Otar Iosseliani, Nana Janelidze, Sergei Paradjanov, Aleksandr Rekhviashvili, and Giorgi Shengelaia, as well as directors who have established their careers in the last fifteen years, such as Salomé Alexi and Rusudan Pirveli.
Georgian cinema is rich in tradition, song, history, love of the arts, and literature. Filmmakers have often focused on the country’s remarkable and varied landscape and on the centrality of the family in Georgian culture. This series offers a chance to see films we have not brought out of the vault since BAMPFA’s Discovering Georgian Cinema retrospective in 2014-15.
For ticket and theater information, please visit:
bampfa.org/program/georgian-c...
With thanks to the Consulate General of Georgia, San Francisco; our colleagues at Cal Performances.