Anna Khazaradze

Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi, where they explore the hidden depths of the city.

Against the backdrop of Cold War, Glory to the Queen reveals stories of four legendary female chess players from Georgia who revolutionized women’s chess across the globe and became Soviet icons of female emancipation.

A young woman watches the war in Lebanon through her phone, from her bed in Paris. Through digital images, family voices, and silences, the film explores the dissociation of a generation condemned to witness the destruction of the world from afar. An intimate essay on exile, screens, and the exhaustion of being a witness.

During its 2012 election campaign titled “Smiling Georgia,” the governing party promised its country’s poorest residents new teeth in exchange for their vote. Dentists began to pull people’s decayed teeth, but after the election defeat, the trusting public never received their new pearly whites…

Elene and Andro discover each other among thousands of protesters; with the desire to meet one another they stay at the demonstration that grows violent and gets dispersed by rubber bullets and tear gas.