DAISIES: Women In Film Fest @ FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Sunday 5. April at 19:00 - 20:15
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
Věra Chytilová | 1966 | Czechoslovakia | 1h15m | Czech language with English subtitles
This is film number 23 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.
Věra Chytilová’s DAISIES follows two young women who decide that if the world is spoiled, they shall be spoiled too. What begins as mischief quickly escalates into a series of disruptions, pranks, and acts of refusal that push against social rules, gender expectations, and the idea of acceptable behaviour. The film moves through fragmented scenes, psychedelic colours, abrupt cuts, and playful destruction, refusing continuity in both form and character.
The two Maries are not written as individuals in a conventional sense. They behave as if the world around is something to test rather than inhabit. Food, bodies, and objects are pulled apart, consumed, rearranged, and discarded. The tone shifts constantly between humour and irritation, charm and confrontation.
DAISIES was controversial on release and faced censorship in its native Czechoslovakia, in part because of its depiction of waste and its refusal to offer a moral framework. What remains striking is how directly it challenges the expectation that women on screen must behave, develop, or be understood.
WHY IT’S INCLUDED IN THIS WEEK’S PROGRAM: I'm showing DAISIES because it rejects structure, obedience, and narrative expectation in a way that still feels disruptive even today. It presents female characters who refuse to be shaped into something coherent or acceptable, and that refusal to conform sits at the centre of the film.
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, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
