NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND: Desert Visions Film Week at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Saturday 27. June at 18:30 - 20:30
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
June 23-28 FOMO presents Desert Visions, a journey through some of cinema's most unforgettable deserts. From Australian outback nightmares and American road movies to spaghetti westerns, Soviet science fiction, spiritual quests, and stories of people searching for meaning at the edge of civilisation. These are films about vast landscapes, strange encounters, reinvention, survival, and what happens when the familiar world falls away.
NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND
Hayao Miyazaki | 1984 | Japan | Japanese with English subtitles | 1h57m
Set a thousand years after an ecological catastrophe, NAUSICAÄ film takes place in a world of deserts, toxic forests, giant insects, and fragile human settlements struggling to survive. At its centre is Nausicaä, a princess, scientist, explorer, and one of the great heroes in all of cinema.
It was made in 1984 and yet its concerns could not be more contemporary. Environmental collapse. War. Scarcity. Fear of the unknown. The tendency of societies to respond to crisis with violence rather than understanding. While most post-apocalyptic films imagine the future as something brutal and cynical. NAUSICAÄ does something much rarer. It imagines a future built around empathy.
The landscapes are extraordinary. Vast seas of sand stretch toward poisonous forests that seem both terrifying and beautiful. Every frame feels alive. Every creature feels as though it belongs to a fully realised world that existed long before the film began and will continue long after it ends.
I've always thought that one of Miyazaki's greatest gifts is his ability to make wonder feel revolutionary. NAUSICAÄ isn't simply a fantasy adventure. It's a film that argues curiosity, compassion, and understanding might be more powerful than domination.
Forty years after its release, it still feels like a vision of the future that cinema is struggling to catch up with.
FOOD AND DRINK POLICY: FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar opens 1 hour before the first screening of the day and closes at 02:00, serving a wide selection of beer, wine, cocktails, and non-alcoholic refreshments including coffee and tea, as well as fresh hot popcorn! Outside food is allowed in the bar but not in the cinema. No alcohol from outside allowed. All guests are invited to arrive early and stay late!
LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
HOW TO FIND FOMO: Enter Bazari Orbeliani via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left to Level 1. Signage on the door. You can also check our Instagram story highlights for a video showing exactly how to find us: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTMzMTA2Mjk0MDI5MjM1
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
