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George Kekelidze

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27/04/2024

GURIAN DIARIES

As a friend of mine always says, there are two kinds of people in this world: Gurians, and everybody else. “Mind you,” he’ll then add, “Gurians aren’t descended from Egros, but from Kartlos, like most other Georgians”. And that’s what makes Guria a land of paradoxes, or paradoxical, if you will. More about that later. Guria truly is a beautiful place. It’s also the poorest place you’ve ever seen.

27/04/2024

ZURIKO'S KALANDA

This is a short film-sketch about the countryside and a man: a film about expecting the New Year and the preparations of the New Year’s eve. The so called “old” New Year, i.e. Kalanda is celebrated in a special way in Guria.

27/04/2024

ATINATI POETRY - WEEK OF POETRY

Poetry is a space, independent and free of terrestrial norms and frames. It is a space, where borders are set up by poets themselves.

27/04/2024

JACOB'S DANCE

This is Jacob Adadze- a dancer from the ensemble of the elderly. Pandemic has locked him down- in high mountains, village Mekeidzeebi. But when he desires to dance, he holds a rehearsal alone – being attended by the snowy mountains.

27/04/2024

LAMARA'S 8 MARCH

Film by George Kekelidze and Natela Grigalashvili. Story about Lamara Chikovani, who is a 85 year old former teacher from Samegrelo region, Chkorotskhu, village Khabu.

27/04/2024

TBILISI- WORLD BOOK CAPITAL

The project of World Book Capital was launched by the General Conference of UNESCO in 2001 to promote books and support development of the publishing industry.

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