https://thecineblog.com/tags/estonia/georgia/ Recent content in Estonia/Georgia on The CineBlog Hugo en-US Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:00:10 -0500 https://thecineblog.com/stories/tangerines/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://thecineblog.com/stories/tangerines/ <p>When filmmakers attempt to capture the horror of war, they usually default to scale. They show us sweeping, chaotic battlefields and exploding cities. In <em>Tangerines</em>, Zaza Urushadze realizes that scale often dilutes tragedy. To convey the massive, senseless geopolitical disaster of the 1992 War in Abkhazia, he did not build a battlefield. He built a chamber play.</p> <h2 id="the-micro-scale-dmz">The Micro-Scale DMZ</h2> <p>The film restricts the conflict almost entirely to the interior of a single, remote farmhouse. By trapping a wounded Georgian soldier and a wounded Chechen mercenary under the roof of an elderly Estonian carpenter, Urushadze turns a domestic space into a high-stakes, micro-scale demilitarized zone.</p>