Otar Iosseliani

Nicholas is the eldest son of a wealthy suburban family, whose businesswoman mother makes deals from a helicopter and has an affair with her business partner. His cheerful, alcoholic father, on the other hand, is reduced to a prisoner in his room with his devoted dog and electric train set. Unbeknownst to his parents, Nicholas works as a window cleaner and dish washer in a Parisian cafe. He is also in love with the daughter of another cafe's owner, who, however, has an abusive boyfriend.

A story told quietly of Vincent a welder at a large and seemingly toxic plant along the Rhône, living in a village with his sons, wife, and mother, saying little to each other. (Imdb)

A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State. (imdb)

A French government minister resigns from his job and trades all his belongings for his pleasure, including his mistress and office, and turns his life into an absurd tale of modern ennui.

A young couple finds themselves torn apart by the need for material things.

A man constantly moves about, never able to commit to anything or anyone, particularly himself.

A string quartet inexplicably finds themselves in a Georgian village, where they are unaccustomed to the quaint ways of the isolated community.

"'Sapovnela' means 'the flower that nobody can find.'" says the director's voiceover at the beginning of this short, "We present this film without subtitles (the voice-over was forced on us by the censorship in the Soviet times but the film was banned anyway due to its ending). This was my first attempt at combining music and colors. Also, this is a story about the old florist Mikhail Mamulashvili who created wonderful compositions in his small garden."

A quarreling couple finds itself in an art museum, looking at a painting of their own house.

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 to wild boar hunters.

King Vano rides bravely off into battle, but only after ensuring his passionate Queen is safely locked in her chastity belt. (imdb)

"Chasing Butterflies" examines the strange whims and peccadilloes of a group of eccentrics who reside in a small French town. There's an alcoholic priest, the assorted residents of a now-decrepit chateau, and a variety of unusual guests who stop by. Events come to a head when Sophie, the rambunctious cousin of the chateau's owner, passes away... creating a battle among the potential heirs for her money and possessions.

Nicolas is an artist, a filmmaker who merely wants to express himself. When he first starts out in Georgia, the "ideologists" hope to gag him, concerned that his work does not follow the set rules. Nicolas leaves his homeland for France. But the "state of grace" will not last long. (imdb)

Otar Iosseliani's abstract 1984 comedy set in Paris that follows two works of art through the hands of various owners. (skyarts.co.uk)

The film depicts the daily life in an African village. The people sleep, eat, make love, pray for rain etc while civilization, by way of timber trucks and tree fellers, is slowly encroaching. (imdb)

Cast Iron is about the daily routine at an ironworks. But the central subject of this uncommented documentary is not fascination for the machines or the achievements of the Soviet steel industry but the people who work at the plant. (MUBI)

This is a filmic poem that celebrates the different artisan and cultural traditions of Georgia - graphic arts, wall painting, wine, ceramics and carpentry and song. (MUBI)

A deadpan, picaresque buddy comedy about two old friends through a series of urban adventures, loosely connected by the skull of an executed French aristocrat. Winter Song is a typically irreverent Iosselianian jaunt through a classy Paris apartment block contemplating the past, present and future. (imdb)