A laundress quarrels with her drunkard husband. He takes refuge in a museum. Iosseliani made this adaptation of Alexandre Grin’s novella during his studies at VGIK.

The filmmaker follows the old gardener who, like a Demiurge, arranges nature to make it even more beautiful, creating beautiful floral compositions. The only color film made by Iosseliani before 1983.

Two newlyweds settle in a new apartment, equipped with the bare essentials. Their life is happy but when the couple starts to pursue comfort and property, quarrels break out.

After the banning of his second film April, Iosseliani worked for a few months in a metallurgical factory. A poetic and committed vision, the film La Fonte shows the harsh reality of the working-class world.

Niko and Otar, two young graduates of the Institute of Oenology in Tbilisi, are hired by a wine coop. First loves accompany their discovery of professional life: Niko woos Marina, the prettiest girl in the factory. One day, they learn that to comply with the five-year plan management is marketing poor quality wine. FIPRESCI Prize [...]

This short subject lets us see and hear Georgian popular culture. The four sequences are filmed in four different provinces – Svanetia, Mingrelia, Imetheria and Kakhti, each of which has its own tradition of ancestral polyphonic singing.

Guia Agladze, dreamy and carefree, is a percussionist in the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra. His professional life boils down to giving a roll of the timpani at the beginning and the end of a concert. In perpetual motion, Guia lives like a bird on a wire, subject to both friendly and emotional encounters.

One summer, a quartet of musicians goes to a small village in the Georgian mountains to rehearse. They stay with a family in which three generations live together. Little by little, the inhabitants find themselves under the charm of the music and the girl of the house falls in love with one of the musicians. [...]

A cinematic tribute to the city of Paris, made up of small sketches interspersed with frames shot in the streets of Paris. An affectionate portrait of the capital and its inhabitants, as seen by a filmmaker.

La caméra d’Otar Iosseliani suit les préparatifs de la fête pastorale à Pagolle au Pays Basque. Chants, danses, gestes et mouvements de cette culture très vivace sont captés avec minutie et attention. Le documentaire laisse transparaitre la tendresse et la nostalgie du réalisateur pour son pays natal.