Today’s Georgia Offers

Mariam Imerlishvili

The Human Rights Center‘s video-studio HRIDC.TV will present a new documentary film „Today’s Georgia Offers”. Giorgi Janelidze is author of the film. The film was screened in the Tbilisi Cinema House and representatives of non-governmental organizations and ordinary citizens attended it.

The one-hour film is about ethnic Ossetian fellow citizens who currently live abroad. Respondents speak about persecution from the law enforcement institutions; according to their statements ministers of the Georgian government and provisional administration of South Ossetia were under oppression. 

The author of the film Giorgi Janelidze said people, who think that their rights were breached, often apply to the Human Rights Center for help and among them are ethnic Ossetian people. The film participants were interviewed only after they left Georgia and received shelters in concrete countries because they faced serious dangerous after saying the truth before leaving.

The former State Minister in Civil Integration Issues of Georgia Zinaida Bestaeva, former foreign minister of the provisional administration of South Ossetia Maya Chigoeva-Tsaboshvili and former deputy interior minister of provisional administration of South Ossetia Vazha Karkusashvili together with other ethnic Ossetian citizens participate in the film.

In the film, the Head of provisional administration of South Ossetia Dimitry Sanakoev responded to the accusations of his former colleagues with his own arguments.

Executive director of the Human Rights Center Ucha Nanuashvili said the “film demonstrates that despite the statements of the governmental officials as if everything is well in Georgia, there are serious problems in the country. We should somehow resolve these problems. The government shall change its attitude towards the people so that they did not feel themselves isolated and flee abroad like it is shown in the film. It is not a problem of only one or two people. People actively abandon Georgia and I think they all have serious reasons for it.”

The film is full of paradoxes. Although President Mikheil Saakashvili appeals to Ossetian and Abkhaz people and promises peace and brotherhood to them, in fact, all Abkhaz and Ossetian people are persecuted whose opinions are not acceptable for the authority. “We do not want to prove anything. We just show facts and the audience shall make conclusions,” said the film author.

The film is very interesting and emotional for spectators.