Alexi leaves the house of his father and stepmother and rents an apartment. He wants to be independent and find his place in the world. But no basic changes ensue – he has the same friends, with the same trivial conversations and the same inactivity. Only the death of his favorite teacher, to whom the young man felt very close, really changes his habitual way of life. Alexi makes a decision: he refuses a place at a research institute and leaves for a teaching job at a village school, the same school his mentor used to work at.

A poetized chronicle of the events taking place in one of the Georgian villages in the late 19th century, when, to save a forest, the innumerous intelligentsia could rally the people and oppose the industrialists…

In the midst of Alaverdoba, an ordinal person plays out a trick to awake pilgrims and their moral spirits, and to remind them of the true meanings of the religious festival.

The film is set in southern Georgia during Ottoman control, where inhabitants, who were driven from their homes due to enemy invasions, try to return home through different means. One of these inhabitants is the young scholar Antimoz.

There are two small Georgian villages from the Middle Ages left in the mountainous Racha region, Ghebi and Chiora. The villages are isolated from the whole of Georgia, as there is no way to get to the them. The towns are emptying as the young people, in search of better future, depart, leaving only the old folk to try to continue scraping by in the harsh mountainous climate.

Story of the friendship between a little boy and his dog.

A story of the bitter life of an orphaned girl.

A story of the bitter life of an orphaned girl.

Soviet Georgian film by Eldar Shengelaia. Based on short story by D. Kldiashvili