SECRETARY: Women In Film Fest @ FOMO Secret Cinema
Tuesday 31. March at 18:30 - 20:20
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
Steven Shainberg | 2002 | USA | 1h47m | English language with English subtitles
SECRETARY is film #11 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.
Steven Shainberg’s SECRETARY begins as a story about control and repression, before gradually revealing itself as something far more complex. Lee Holloway, a young woman navigating life after a period of institutionalisation, takes a job as a secretary for a demanding lawyer whose strict routines begin to shape her sense of self. What follows is not a conventional romance but an exploration of desire, agency, and her search for personal equilibrium.
Maggie Gyllenhaal delivers a fearless performance charting Lee’s transformation with restraint and vulnerability. The film approaches taboo subject matter with dark humour and without moral judgement. Over time, what initially appears unsettling begins to take on a strange coherence, inviting the viewer to reconsider assumptions about power, intimacy, and what constitutes a healthy relationship.
For audiences open to cinema that challenges boundaries, SECRETARY offers a quietly subversive experience that lingers long after the final frame.
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