Otar Iosseliani Movies

The horrific war in Chechnya, a neighbor of Georgia, gives a special poignancy to Otar Iosseliani’s fascinating, four-hour, made-for-television...

A man tries to escape from his wife in order to visit an exhibition, where he sees a painting representing his own house.

Events in an idyllic African village are shown in detail in the period just before logging trucks come in and cut down the forest around the...

A witty, despairing French-Russian-Italian-Swiss art movie set in 16th-century Georgia, Stalinist Georgia, contemporary Georgia, and contemporary...

An Young, inexperiences girl had decided to live in the countryside, but she can't find her place among gloomy, unfriendly locals, Can't manage to do...

A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship...

Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Otar Iosselani looks at the Basque region and its inhabitants.

Making of Monday Morning from Otar Iosseliani

Based on the novella by the American writer O. Henry