Tengiz Abuladze | USSR (Georgia) | 1984 | Georgian audio with English subtitles
Abuladze’s REPENTANCE is a fierce and unsettling exploration of political cruelty and private memory. The story examines how a community tries to confront the legacy of a tyrant who shaped their lives through fear.
The film shifts between realism and dream imagery, revealing the emotional cost of living under a regime built on lies and punishment.
Long banned for its criticism of authoritarian power, it has since become one of the most significant works in Georgian and Soviet cinema. REPENTANCE is bold, strange, and morally urgent, a film that still provokes debate decades after its release.
We are screening REPENTANCE twice this week to close out our Abuladze trilogy, having shown THE PLEA and THE WISHING TREE over the last two weeks.
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 immediately on your left behind the jewellery stand. The cinema entrance is one flight up in the stairwell.
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani. Enter via Atoneli St, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia