ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Oscars Week Film Screening
Wednesday 28. January at 19:45 - 22:25
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
Proudly presented as part of our Oscars Film Week at FOMO Secret Cinema.
Paul Thomas Anderson | 2025 | USA | 2h41m | English audio and subtitles | Plus 10-minute intermission
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is Paul Thomas Anderson’s most politically charged film to date, combining large scale narrative ambition with his signature psychological intimacy.
Set in contemporary America, the film follows intersecting characters drawn into a long running struggle involving activism, political influence and private ambition. As alliances shift and moral boundaries blur, the story reveals how power circulates through institutions, families, and personal relationships.
Anderson constructs a dense, multi layered narrative that moves fluidly between personal drama and political machinery. Rather than offering simple ideological positions, the film observes how compromise, loyalty, and self preservation gradually reshape individual ethics. Dialogue, pacing, and structure work together to build an atmosphere of unease rather than conventional suspense.
Like THERE WILL BE BLOOD and THE MASTER, this is a film concerned with power, control, and belief systems. Here, Anderson turns his attention outward, examining how ideological conflict filters down into daily life, shaping identity, behavior, and consequence.
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER reflects on the psychological cost of political struggle, and the quiet erosion of certainty in a world governed by competing narratives and private interests.
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 behind the jewellery stand. One flight up. Video instructions here
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0102 Tbilisi, Georgia
