Inner Blooming Springs + Temo Re
Sat 04 OctEnjoy this double bill of two 2025 films by young Georgian directors selected at Berlin and Rotterdam Film Festivals.
Special screening
Followed by a Q&A with directors Tiku Kobiashvili and Anka Gujabidze
Programme
Inner Blooming Springs | Shinagani gazapkhulebis q’vaviloba
Dir. Tiku Kobiashvili / GEO | 2025 / 41 mins / Cert TBC / In Georgian with EN subs
It’s 2024. Tens of thousands protest on the streets of Tbilisi against the so-called ‘Foreign Agents’ law. The previous year, pressure from the street made the government withdraw its draft law. Now it’s back on the agenda. Tina, Luka and director Tiku Kobiashvili and their friends are in the thick of it. The camera forms part of this intimate friendship. If anyone from the circle is arrested at a demo, Tiku is supposed to film it. The friends share an approach to life whose political nature stems from prioritising being there for each other and avoiding creating leaders even in the midst of protest. Together, they gather courage for what is coming.
Temo Re
Dir. Anka Gujabidze, with Temo Rekhviashvili, Mikheil Abramishvili, Natalia Gabisonia, Sandro Kalandadze / GEO | 2025 / 50 mins / UK Premiere / Cert TBC / In Georgian with EN subs
Temo is a struggling actor who rides about 100km per day as a scooter courier. Photographer Anka Gujabidze debut and slyly funny film is a free adaption of Temo Rekviashvili’s novel Courier Tales. Shot as a series of stills and put together in a brilliant edit, this photomontage depicts a single day in the life of Temo Re (played by himself), and his increasingly surreal escapades around Tbilisi.
The film won a prestigious Tiger Short Award and the KNF (Circle of Dutch Film Journalists) Award at this year’s Rotterdam International Film Festival.
