Projects

Bridges Film Lab

Bridges Film Lab is an international cross-disciplinary, multi-cultural research lab that brings together time-based creatives from Eastern- and Western Europe to investigate spatial issues through film. Bridges Film Lab draws from current themes originating in architecture and public space, translating research into these themes through cinema as the project’s language and medium. Collaborating with international partners from the film and architecture worlds, participants work in teams to research, script, and produce essay films that respond to shared challenges in the region the Lab covers.

Palace of Poetry - Sophie Gvelukashvili

Kyiv Critics' Week x NL

KCW x NL is a collaboration between Kyiv Critics' Week, De Balie, KINO Rotterdam, and GoGoFilm. The festival program is curated by Ukrainian film critics for a wider Dutch audience and the Ukrainian diaspora. The discussions after the films, each with a Dutch and a Ukrainian film critic, illuminate the films and their themes from different perspectives and form a meeting point between two cultures that have come into increasing contact in recent years. The audience is thus involved and informed about the culture and history of Ukraine.

Podcast Kyiv Critics Week

The Rezo Gabriadze script development workshop

The Rezo Gabriadze Script Development Workshop is an intensive five-day workshop held annually since 2023 during the Kutaisi International Short Film Festival in Georgië. Film producers Tekla Machavariani (Nushi Film) and Ineke Smits (GoGoFilm) focus on both the content and production development of short film scripts. At the end of the workshop, participants pitch their projects to an international jury, that awards the best project. With its focus on short films, the KISFF is an excellent venue for talent development, a true magnet for young filmmakers, and therefore an interesting place to discover new talent from the South Caucasus.

Film Mosaic 1 & 2

FilmMosaic 1&2 were initiated by the Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx), in collaboration with Nushi Film and other organizations in the South Caucasus. The program aimed to stimulate knowledge, exchange, and creative collaboration among local creatives in a broad sense. It addressed themes such as the accessibility of urban spaces, climate change, ecology, and queer rights.

Despite the large number of applications and the enthusiastic response CAFx had to withdraw due to declining funding. GoGoFilm and AFFR, in close consultation with CAFx, took the initiative to revive the project in Bridges Film Lab.

Film Mosaic is a collaboration between the Copenhagen Architecture Festival (Denmark), Nushi Film (Georgia), Tbilisi Architecture Biennial (Georgia), Queer Art Fest Baku (Azerbaijan) and Pink Armenia (Armenia).

Films

Holy Electricity

Holy Electricity tells the story of Bart and his 17-year-old nephew, Gonga, set against the backdrop of modern-day Tbilisi. As Bart promises to take care of Gonga after his brother's death, they are left to navigate the challenges of a suburban reality, including a significant debt. Can luminous crucifixes fill a market gap for them to profit from?

Tato Kotetishvili’s debut feature film Holy Electricity was produced by Zango Studio (Georgia) and Nushi Film (Georgia) in co-production with Arrebato Films (Georgia), GoGoFilm (Netherlands) and The Film Kitchen (Netherlands)

The film won in 2024 the Pardo d'Oro in Concorso Cineasti del Presente in Locarno, was selected for MoMA's New Films New Directors' program in New York, premiered at IFFR and was subsequently released in Dutch cinemas.

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