Movies: Otar Iosseliani

Under the premise of documenting for the sake of preservation the various forms of Georgian religious chanting, a distinct kind of sonorous psalmody passed over from generation to generation, what Otar Iosseliani captures in reality is the snapshot o...

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

Based on the novella by the American writer O. Henry...

The horrific war in Chechnya, a neighbor of Georgia, gives a special poignancy to Otar Iosseliani’s fascinating, four-hour, made-for-television documentary on Georgia which, like his delightful Chasing Butterflies (SFIFF 1993), was produced in France...

"Before we started work on the film "Les Favoris de la Lune" , I tried to capture on film my first impressions of the city and the people who inhabit it. This etude of Paris, slightly shortened, was shown on television." -- Otar Ioseliani...

Documentary of the Rustavi Metal Works, in the country of Georgia....

It is a brief documentary which records the life of five Augustinian monks in the little monastery of Castelnuovo dell'Abate, a Tuscan village, as well as the everyday life of people in the small town, from farmers to meat-hackers, from wine-makers t...

Making of Monday Morning from Otar Iosseliani...

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....