PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE: Women in Film Fest @ FOMO Cinema
Saturday 28. March at 18:30 - 20:35
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
Céline Sciamma | 2019 | France | 2h02m | French language with English subtitles
Céline Sciamma’s PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE unfolds within a remote coastal setting where an artist is commissioned to paint a portrait under conditions of secrecy. From this premise emerges a sustained exploration of looking, desire, and the ethics of representation. The film’s narrative is constructed through gesture, silence, and the gradual accumulation of shared attention.
Sciamma’s formal restraint allows performance and image to carry emotional weight, creating a space in which time appears suspended. The relationship at the film’s centre is shaped through acts of observation, positioning the gaze itself as both a creative and transformative force.
As part of our Women in Film Festival, the film is included for its reconfiguration of cinematic looking. It proposes a model of representation in which women are not objects of the gaze but active participants in its construction. Its significance lies in how it reimagines both authorship and spectatorship within a historically gendered visual tradition.
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