Georgian Irish Film Festival 2025

Statement from the Festival Director

We'd like to invite you to an evening of Georgian Films at the Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire on 2nd May 2025, 7PM - 9PM.

Visiting Georgia in late 2024, I was inspired by the spirit of Tbilisi and the ongoing struggle for democratic reform. In an effort to raise awareness of the current situation and to create connections between filmmakers based in Georgia and Ireland, I've teamed up with volunteers from the Kino Kabaret Dublin filmmaking community to stage this one night event.

In cooperation with Caucasus Cinema and the Georgian American Film Academy, we've extended an invitation to select Georgian and international filmmakers working in Georgia to screen their work: Films that speak to Georgian landscape, contemporary experience and culture. We've delighted and impressed to have had the chance to gather an incredible variety of films which represent some of the best contemporary Georgian shorts. Films that will entertain, surprise, delight and move you.

We want to make this festival accessible to all, so tickets are available for just 5 euro all inclusive. All films will be in both English and Georgian. So come along, bring your friends and family, and join us for this one night only event!

Special Thanks to: Vakhtang Kantaria, Vladic Ravich, Goga Mamukelashvili, Sandro Tughushi.

გამარჯობა!
Gareth Stack

All profits from this event will be donated to Spirasi - The National Centre for Survivors of Torture

Current Lineup

Kato (2025) - (14 min, drama)

Dir: Maya Gelovani
Cinematographer Mariam Nizharadze
A woman remembers her girlhood home in Tbilisi.

Paloma Nigra (2024) (14 min, drama)
Dir: Masha Chernaya.
A man with a mysterious power questions his purpose.

For Sale (2024) (2 min, doc)
Dir: Mariam Barbakadze and Taso Ugulava.
An experimental shot exploring the relationship between land and home.

Walk (2024) (7 min, doc)
Directed by Daria Zhuravel.
An autobiographical story by Daria Zhuravel, dedicated to the childhood and those who are no longer with us, but whose presence accompanies us wherever we go.

Death and Cats (2024) (10:30, doc)
Dir: Jack Wake-Walker.
In a remote town in the Republic of Georgia, a spinster performs freestyle poetry about two important subjects in her life.

Blue Revision (2024) - 16 min (drama)
Director / cinematographer / writer: Goga Mamukelashvili

A soldier and a protestor have an encounter at a bar during the protests.

Mute (2023) (12 min, drama)
Dir: Daria Zhuravel
17-year-old Eva wanders around the small Georgian town with her camcorder, capturing moments as she dreams of being a filmmaker. That evening she meets a man.

Benches (2023) (13 min, drama)
Dir: Sergio de Vega
A series of benches tell the story of a small Georgian town.

Tombstones and Cats (2022) (11:24, doc)
Dir: Ulyana Toporovskaya
Aleksander Petrovich, a tombstone manager at the cemetery in Kutaisi, knows everything about tombstones – and a lot about his clients.

VIP (2022) (8 min, drama)
Dir: Jack Wake-Walker
Genre bending horror comedy