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Nini Shvelidze

Nini is a Georgian film researcher and PhD student in Film Studies and Cultural Studies at Ilia State University. She has a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication and an MA in Film Studies She is the co-editor, translator and author at Cinexpress.he. Additionally, she is a film programmer at th Kutaisi International Short Film Festival, a film screening organiser and moderator at Georgian Film House and a co-curator of the project Jonas Mekas 100 in Georgia.

Latest Film Reviews

  • Shreds (2022)
    Review preview for Shreds

    Dzianowicz shows us step by step for 100 minutes how the psychological state of the characters is changed by by living on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

    Nini Shvelidze · 3 out of 5
    A family try to come to terms with a grandfather’s diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s.

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In silence Emir Kumova on child marriage in Türkiye, moral challenges and making The Witness

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Flying blind Michael Woloson and Scott Tinkham on improvisation, experimental writing and Littermates

In deep water Dominic Curran on internet overexposure and A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing

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