THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY Film Screening at FOMO Indie Cinema

Ben Stiller | 2013 | USA/UK | 1h54m | English language with English subtitles

Ben Stiller’s THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY follows a film negative assets manager at Life magazine whose inner life is defined by elaborate daydreams that compensate for a routine existence. When a missing photograph disrupts his controlled environment, the film shifts from interior fantasy to physical journey, tracing a movement outward into the world.

What begins as a narrative about escapism gradually becomes a study of attention and presence. The film situates its protagonist within vast natural landscapes that resist the mediated image culture he works within, reframing adventure not as spectacle but as a confrontation with uncertainty and risk.

Stiller’s direction balances studio-scale ambition with a quieter thematic core. The film repeatedly returns to the tension between documentation and experience, asking whether a life is best preserved through images or lived directly. Its resolution rejects fantasy as a substitute for action, repositioning imagination as a catalyst rather than an endpoint.

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