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For a Georgian viewer, the film’s two-part structure—the first half a hurricane of toxic masculinity and pressure, the second half a quiet meditation on forgiveness—resonates with the country’s own cultural memory. Georgia knows waves: the Black Sea’s sudden storms, the Soviet wave that crashed over Tbilisi, the modern wave of Westernization that pulls young people away from ojakhi (family, ოჯახი). Waves 2019 Qartulad-
The film follows (played by three actresses across different ages), a renowned Georgian filmmaker in her 80s. She returns to her family’s abandoned summer home by the Black Sea. While sorting through old photographs, letters, and film reels, she begins to drift between three periods of her life: Watch this detailed analysis to understand the deeper