In Paris, at the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, the retrospective Georgian Silent Cinema - Mirror of a Nation is currently being held.

The event, running from February 4 to March 3, features screenings of around 20 films representing the avant-garde of Georgian cinema and is organized on a carte blanche basis. This special status was granted by the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé specifically to the Georgian National Film Center and the National Archives of Georgia.

As part of the retrospective, a dedicated discussion on the avant-garde of Georgian cinema took place, with participants including: Georgia’s representative for cultural relations with Europe at Eurimages, film director Sofia Babluani; project manager at the Georgian National Film Center and film scholar Nino Kavtaradze; head of the Film, Photo, and Sound Archive of the National Archives of Georgia Giorgi Kakabadze; Georgian cinema specialists - Jean Radvanyi, Professor Emeritus of the University of Oriental Cultures INALCO and Professor Gabrielle Chomentowski of Sorbonne University, as well as Maia Varsimashvili-Raphael, Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Paris Nanterre. 

Speakers discussed the connections between 1920s Georgian literature and the early development of Georgian cinema, examined the historical context of avant-garde Georgian films, and highlighted their unique place in the history of world cinema.

Among the films presented to audiences at the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé cinema are: My Grandmother; Eliso; Salt for Svaneti; Ugubura; Khanuma; Giuli; Who is Guilty; Surami Fortress, and others. Notably, the screenings are accompanied by live musical performances by pianists from the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris.