Sandro is a filmmaker and journalist originally from Tbilisi who is based in Sao Paolo nowadays. He studied journalism at Moscow State University and worked first in Russia, then in Georgia. He covered the 2008 Georgian-Russian war for Georgian TV. He was the first Georgian journalist to enter Gori, near…
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Anna is a film maker from Tbilisi. Russian director Andrey Tarkovsky is one of her role models and she is shooting Scifi movies herself. At the same time she is going out to techno parties a lot in Tbilisi, as night life gives her what she needs to be creative.…
This driver showed us a lot of industrial ruins of closed Soviet factories on the way from Zugdidi to Zestaponi. With a mix of stoicism and melancholia, he would point out old textile plants, paper production facilities, and tile factories which have decayed to grey and sombre looking concrete carcasses.…
Gvantsa is a writer, publisher and promoter of Georgian literature abroad. Last October she was at the Frankfurt book fair with her publishing house, as Georgia was the official guest of honour in 2018. Almost 160 novels have been translated from Georgian into German since 2012 and Gvantsa is very…