Author: Jason Osborn

Donald Rayfield talk 17th November

BGS is delighted that Professor Donald Rayfield will talk on the Georgian language at the Courtuald Institute. ‘An Orphan in the Caucasus’ – Talk by...

Shadows of Forgotten Memories

It is strange how in life things come full circle. 10 days ago I was tracking down the `Hutcul people who inhabit the Carpathian mountains...

A Trip to Karabakh (Gaseirneba Kharabakhshi)

Winner of the ‘Golden Vine’ – Grand Prize at the CIS and Baltic States Festival. A collaboration between director Levan Tutberidze and writer Aka Morchiladze....

Georgian Studies Day 2nd November 2011

GEORGIA REALLY MATTERS celebrating 25 years of the Annual Georgian Studies Day. November 2nd at the University of Westminster, Regent Street campus. Speakers include the...

Keto and Kote introduced by Gela Charkviani

The earliest full-scale Georgian cinematic musical Keto and Kote (1948), based on the comic opera by Viktor Dolidze, was screened at the Georgian Embassy in...

My English Grandfather (1986) anu chemi ingliseli Papa

Director Nana Djordjadze made the only Georgian film to be nominated for an oscar, A Chef in Love (1996). Her 1986 comedy, My English Grandfather also called Robinson Crusoe in Georgia...