Georgian Cinema Double Bill 2

Cinema and Video Art from Georgia

Taking place at Arnolfini and The Cube the festival celebrates 20 years of twinning between Bristol and Tbilisi and marking the 100th anniversary of Georgian Cinema.

"Georgian film is a strange phenomenon, special, philosophically light, sophisticated and at the same time childishly pure and innocent. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing". Federico Fellini

Bandits + Intro (CTBA)

Fri 17 Oct, 6.30pm

£5.50 / £4.00 concs

On Nov 18 1983 seven Georgians hijacked a Soviet passenger plane to escape into the glittering west. What started out as a naive fantasy quickly became a nightmare whose events leave an indelible mark on the psyche of the Georgian nation. Bandits retraces the roots of the escapade, its victims, its survivors and its myth; an examination of the human side of terrorism.

With introduction and Q & A from the Director of Bandits, Zaza Rusadze.

Dir. Zaza Rusadze Germany 2003 52m

Repentance (PG)

Fri 17 Oct, 7.45pm

A complex and coherent metaphor of the evil of tyranny. After the funeral of the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. When a local woman is accused of digging up the body, she accuses the mayor of a Stalin-like reign of terror that led to the disappearance of many people.

Dir. Tengiz Abuladze 1984 Georgia 2h 33m

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