THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM Film Screening (ENG subs)
Friday 12. December at 19:45 - 21:45
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
All tickets have been sold out
FOMO presents Slavic Surrealism: Friday Night at the Crematorium
IMPORTANT: When arriving at the Bazari please use the side entrance on Sulkhanishvili St.
FOMO is screening two late-night Slavic surrealist classics this Thursday and Friday.. You can see THE CREMATOR together with THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM as a special double session. Tickets cost 15 GEL for a single film or 20 GEL for both.
Wojciech Jerzy Has | 1973 | Poland | 124 minutes Presented in the original Polish audio with English subtitles.
THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM follows Józef, a man who travels to a remote, decaying sanatorium where time behaves unpredictably. The doctors tell him that his dying father is alive in some moments and gone in others, depending on which corridor he enters. The logic of the place is dreamlike and unstable, shifting between memory, fantasy, and fragments of Jewish life in prewar Poland.
Has builds each sequence as a self contained world. Abandoned trains. Empty houses. Mechanical dolls. Banquets filled with ghosts. The sets, colours, and camera movements create an atmosphere where history and imagination collapse into each other. Józef tries to understand what is real and what belongs to the past, but the sanatorium keeps reshaping itself around him.
The film explores identity, loss, and cultural survival. It is surreal, melancholy, and visually rich, echoing the literature of Bruno Schulz. THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM is essential for anyone interested in Polish cinema or surreal film traditions.
Location: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi.
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
