# The best Georgian films

From Our Courtyard and Don't Grieve to Repentance, Mimino and What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?: the Georgian cinema Perspectum recommends.

- 2 votes · 14 items
- Mar 12, 2024 · Nastya Egorova
- https://even.best/en/l/4542/the-best-georgian-films

## Top 14

1. **The Legend of Suram Fortress (1984)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sergei Parajanov and Dodo Abashidze. The legend of a youth walled into a fortress.
2. **Repentance (1984)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tengiz Abuladze. A parable about a dictator who cannot be buried. Cannes Grand Prix.
3. **Mimino (1977)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Georgiy Daneliya. Helicopter pilot Mimino dreams of flying big planes.
4. **Don't Grieve (1969)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Georgiy Daneliya. A young doctor's adventures in old Georgia.
5. **The Wishing Tree (1976)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tengiz Abuladze. A Georgian village and an ill-fated love.
6. **Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion (1962)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tengiz Abuladze. A village childhood, from Nodar Dumbadze's novella.
7. **Our Courtyard (1956)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Revaz Chkheidze. Life in a Tbilisi courtyard.
8. **Melodies of Vera Quarter (1973)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Giorgi Shengelaia. A musical comedy about old Tbilisi.
9. **Pastorale (1976)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Otar Iosseliani. City musicians spend the summer in a village.
10. **Tangerines (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Zaza Urushadze. Old Estonians caught in the Abkhazia war. Oscar nominee.
11. **In Bloom (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross. Two teenage girls in 1992 Tbilisi.
12. **Hostages (2017)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rezo Gigineishvili. The 1983 hijacking of a plane by young Tbilisi residents.
13. **What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alexandre Koberidze. Lovers in Kutaisi who wake up with different faces.
14. **An Unusual Exhibition (1968)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Eldar Shengelaia. A sculptor forced to make gravestones.

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