ABOUT

IFP is engaged in numerous cultural initiatives. These activities reflect our commitment to increase public knowledge and understanding of Georgian arts and culture.
The studio is on the Board of Trustees of the Art Palace Of Georgia and hosts regular art venues globally.

Independent Film Project is a Tbilisi based studio founded in 2006 to introduce new talents and establish successful creative collaborations with respected filmmakers.
Today IFP focuses on high-end auteur-driven cinema, premium series and documentaries of socially significant context.

The Russian Triangle

FILMOGRAPHY

A big Russian city - not necessarily Moscow. A young detective Nikolay, whose ancestors are Georgian, takes part in the investigation of a murder committed by a mysterious blind killer. His intuition leads him to a group of people whose destiny was broken by the Chechen War. This peaceful town finds it’s sinister inside, and Nikolay's noble impulses runs into the cruel and corrupt reality.
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Sakhli Sikharulisa

Georgia, Czech Republic
Director Merab Kokochashvili
2009

The House of Joy is a documentary about the creation of the film musical Keto and Kote, which was called the Georgian movie of the twentieth century. It reveals how the film was made, despite the strict censorship of the Stalin's regime.
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Three Houses

Georgia, Czech Republic
Director Zaza Urushadze
2009

Three stories happening in three different centuries, revolve around a mysterious painting entitled "Two Owls".
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Women From Georgia

Georgia, USA
Director Levan Koguashvili
2009

A documentary about women who come to America to work illegally and send money back to Georgia to support their families. "Women" explores the lives of Georgian women in New York and New Jersey; their lifestyle and culture clashing with a new lifestyle and American culture. These women are mothers, wives, sisters, daughters and, in addition to that, they are civilized slaves who are deliberately sacrificing their lives for their families.
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The Conflict Zone

Georgia
Director Vano Burduli
2009

The Soviet Union has collapsed. Civil and ethnic wars have broken out in Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, three republics in the Caucasus - the post-Soviet Caucasus have turned into one large conflict zone. Two radically different people - Gogliko, a Tbilisi street boy, and Spartak, a Sukhumi sniper, - are united by the bloody absurd of the conflict zone. More details on imdb >>

Street Days

Georgia, Czech Republic
Director Levan Koguashvili
2010

A drug addict is being threatened by jail if he doesn't set up his childhood friend's son.
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Rene Midis Holivudshi

Georgia
Director Aleko Tsabadze
2010

Renee Dadiani, a big city dweller, teaches video art in a film school but at the same time he works for a propane delivery office. He claims that real men are men of many hats. In a film school he's one of the avid preachers of self-initiated absurd theory: one can enhance the power of imagination by way of altering consciousness that, on its turn, can give way to new reality. Renee often observes city life through his Handycam.
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I’ll Die Without You

Georgia
Director Levan Tutberidze
2010

A film with parallel editing tells about two youngsters from Tbilisi: writer Zaza and criminal Mamula. One is driven by a wish to take revenge; the other is driven by love and chivalry. Both are mistaken, as their ambitious decisions resemble a game with fate.
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The Hunter

Georgia, France, Russia
Director Bakur Bakuradze
2010

Farmer Ivan Dunaev gets up early. He feeds his piglets, does paperwork, fixes the tractor, and weighs the meat he'll take in his old pickup truck to the market to sell. He has a wife, a teenage daughter, and a young son. And he loves to hunt. Then, one day, two new workers, Lyuba and Raya, on work release from the local prison colony, arrive on the farm. Something begins to change.
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Love With Accent

Georgia, Russia
Director Rezo Gigineishvili
2012

"Love with Accent" is a film that explores several love stories. They range from the naïve and absurd, to the odd and comical, to the lucky, to the melancholy.
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Without Borders

Georgia, Russia
Directors:
Rezo Gigineishvili
Karen Oganesyan
Roman Prygunov
2015

Few not novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia.
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WORK IN PROGRESS

This project has been developed at the Cinéfondation Residency, Torino Script Lab 2019 and Torino Feature Lab 2020

After his father abandons him to become a monk, a sixteen-year-old Sandro, struggles to reconcile his growing devotion to God and his awakening sexuality, which manifests in uncontrollable ways and leads him to questionable actions, as he searches for meaning and belonging in the turbulent society of post-Soviet Georgia.

FEATURES

Unknown true story of how Joseph Djugashvili became Stalin.
Based on the international bestseller “Young Stalin” by Simon Sebag Montifiore.

- script

Young Stalin

A fascinating, essentially unknown chapter in American/ Soviet history. Going Home, a very tentative title, is the story of courage, friendship, heartbreak, and the quest for dignity.

- script

Going home

Paris. 1941. Joseph Eligulashvili, an important figure in the Georgian community of Jews in France, was detained by the Gestapo. His family miraculously managed to avoid arrest, but Joseph himself was sent to the Auschwitz death camp.

- script

Project 0241

Russia, 2021. Alla - 22 y.o. editor of a student magazine DOXA reminds the readers about their right to peaceful protest and ends up spending one year under house arrest.
Alla is forbidden from using the Internet and communication facilities, all personal devices are confiscated— she has to drop out of the university and journalism.
Meanwhile she meets the love.

- in production

Prohibition of certain action

DOCUMENTARIES

TAU is a found footage gathered from Ural TV news agency archive from 1994 to 2000. This mosaic of TV reports is a story about the collapse of Soviet civilization through the destiny of one Russian region. An assemblage of disparate visual fragments full of decadence, black humor, crime, and war turns to be an analytical essay aiming to explain mythology of the controversial Post-Soviet decade and to understand the genesis of the present.

- in development

TAU

GTA: Criminal Russia is an online roleplay game where thousands of players climb the ladder of governmental and police agencies, serve time in the military or in prison, hold military parades and feather their nests. On 24 February, 2022 a real war burst into this virtual world.

- in development

Demorgan

CULTURAL
INITIATIVES

The studio also conducts publishing activities: we restore and republish early printed Georgian books and manuscripts. In collaboration with Georgian Theater and Film museum we publish brand new editions dedicated to Georgian artists like Petre Otskheli, Irina Shtenberg, Joseph Sumbatishvili, David Kakabadze.

Independent Film Project is a regular member of international fairs representing Georgian book printing.

International Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 >>

From 2007 till 2011 Independent Film Project was engaged in the preservation of the Golden Fund of Georgian cinema of 1920-30s. More than a dozen of film copies have been restored and digitized in Germany, Czech Republic and Russia. Among them “Salt of Svaneti” (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov), “Pirosmani” (dir. George Shengelaya), “Keto and Kote” (dir. Vakhtang Tabliashvili, Shalva Gedevanishvili), “My Grandmother” (dir Kote Mikaberidze) and more.

Together with the Ministry of Culture of Georgia and Georgian National Film Center IFP organizes international screenings of the restored heritage.

Retrospective of Georgian Cinema at the Pierre Cardin Center Paris in 2010 >>

GEORGIAN FILM HERITAGE

PUBLISHING

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29 Griboedov Street,
Tbilisi 0204, Georgia
+995 544 44 71 96
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