THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM Film Screening (ENG subs)
Thursday 11. December at 22:00 - Friday 12. December at 00:15
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
FOMO presents Slavic Surrealism: Thursday Night at the Sanatorium
IMPORTANT: Please arrive at the Bazari by 21:50 to gain access to the cinema. There are two entrances - one on Atoneli St and the other on Sulkhanishvili
FOMO is presenting two late-night surrealist classics this Thursday and Friday at 22:15 You can see THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM together with THE CREMATOR as a special double session. Tickets cost 15 GEL for a single film or 20 GEL for both. Please buy both tickets and I'll issue you a refund when you arrive for the second film.
Wojciech Jerzy Has | 1973 | Poland | 124 minutes Presented in the original Polish audio with English subtitles.
THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM follows Józef, a man who travels to a remote, decaying sanatorium where time behaves unpredictably. The doctors tell him that his dying father is alive in some moments and gone in others, depending on which corridor he enters. The logic of the place is dreamlike and unstable, shifting between memory, fantasy, and fragments of Jewish life in prewar Poland.
Has builds each sequence as a self contained world. Abandoned trains. Empty houses. Mechanical dolls. Banquets filled with ghosts. The sets, colours, and camera movements create an atmosphere where history and imagination collapse into each other. Józef tries to understand what is real and what belongs to the past, but the sanatorium keeps reshaping itself around him.
The film explores identity, loss, and cultural survival. It is surreal, melancholy, and visually rich, echoing the literature of Bruno Schulz. THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM is essential for anyone interested in Polish cinema or surreal film traditions.
Location: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi.
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
