BORAT! - Comedy Film Fest at FOMO Cinema

Larry Charles | 2006 | USA/UK | 1h24m | English language with English subtitles

BORAT! CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN

Sacha Baron Cohen’s BORAT remains one of the most explosive comedies of the 2000s, not only because it's outrageous, but because it weaponizes awkwardness so effectively. Part fake documentary, part prank film, part social experiment, it sends Borat across the United States and lets ordinary people expose themselves in front of the camera. The result is not just comic chaos, but something much sharper and more revealing.

The film is filthy, fearless, and deliberately confrontational. It's packed with scenes that became instantly iconic, but its staying power comes from something more than shock. BORAT is funny because it understands performance, national mythmaking, masculinity, and public embarrassment better than most straight comedies ever could.

Remember to leave your brain at home and to bring a friend - this is a film best enjoyed with a cold beer and good company.

WHY IT’S INCLUDED IN THIS WEEK’S PROGRAM: People always ask me to screen this so I thought what better time than Comedy Week! Borat! is anarchic, politically toxic in all the right ways, and still capable of making an audience laugh in disbelief. It also gives my program one of the defining comedies of its era.

LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.

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