DOCUMENTEUR: Women In Film Fest @ FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Wednesday 1. April at 17:30 - 18:35
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
Special discounted tickets. Student prices for everyone. Only 15 GEL.
Agnès Varda | 1981 | France/USA | 1h05m | French and English language with English subtitles
DOCUMENTEUR is film #12 in FOMO’s extended Women in Film Week, a program built around female performance, female subjectivity, and the many ways women’s stories are written, performed, directed, and brought to life on screen.
Agnès Varda’s DOCUMENTEUR follows a French woman living in Los Angeles with her young son, drifting between temporary homes and trying to piece together a sense of stability after a separation. The film unfolds through fragments of daily life, voiceover, and observation, building a portrait of loneliness that is tied to place, language, and dislocation.
Shot alongside Varda’s documentary MUR MURS, the film sits somewhere between fiction and lived experience. It draws on Varda’s own life, but resists autobiography in a conventional sense, instead focusing on the texture of time, memory, and emotional distance. Los Angeles is not presented as a backdrop but as something felt, empty, expansive, and difficult to belong to.
DOCUMENTEUR offers a quiet but exact study of solitude, motherhood, and the effort required to rebuild a life when nothing feels anchored. The title is also a pun. “Documenteur” combines documentaire (documentary) and menteur (liar). By choosing to call her film DOCUMENTEUR, Varda is asking us - the viewer - whether any documentary can ever be fully "true".
Location: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
How to find FOMO: Enter the Bazari via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left as soon as you enter next to the karaoke booth. FOMO is one flight up. Video instructions here: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17933106294029235
T&Cs: Guests must enter the Bazari by 23:00 to gain access to the FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar. If the Atoneli St entrance is locked you can get in via the side entrance on Sulkhanishvil St between 21:00 and 23:00. We close at 02:00 each evening. No refunds are issued unless we cancel the screening ourselves.
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani stairwell, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia