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Tbilisi International Film Festival held a special screening of the Soviet-Georgian classic Falling Leaves by Otar Iosseliani, showing a marvellously restored version of this cinema classic.

Maja Soomägi dives deeper into the integration of the Azerbaijani ethnic minority in Georgia in her review of the short film "Hey, Gunesh!"

Gabrielė Liepa examines the legacy of Soviet-era artists who collaborated with the regime in their review of "The Poet"

Alexandra Kuenning reviews "The Northeast Winds," a moving and diverting examination of Stalinist nostalgia in Georgia.

Alexandra Kuenning reviews Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius's last film, a sombre and raw record of the siege of Mariupol

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Katherine Leung in an interview with the founders of the English Speaking Club, an immigrant-led volunteer-run English teaching organisation.

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Charles Fourmi on how promoting plant-based diets could help mobilise climate action in Central Europe

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