This haunting coming-of-age film is set in a country that itself is coming of age. It takes place in Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia, in 1992, just after it regained independence after roughly ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This is a story of adolescence and female friendship under pressure, explored with a quietly engrossing combination of familiarity and ...

The title of In Bloom refers both to the movie's 14-year-old protagonists, Eka and Natia, and to the burgeoning Georgian nation where the film, set a year after that country's independence, is set.

Lika Babluani (Eka) and Mariam Bokeria (Natia) in the film "In Bloom." (Big World Pictures) Ask just about any teenager and they'll tell you it's hard growing up wherever and whenever they are. The ...

Eka (Lika Babluani) and Natia (Mariam Bokeria) are 14-year-old BFs growing up in Tbilisi, capital of the newly independent Georgia, in the months following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Background ...

Some 25 years later, with war brewing in Ukraine, the end of the Soviet Union still does not seem likely to usher in a golden age of new democracies any time soon. The breakaway republic of Georgia ...

In Bloom is essentially a down-at-heel teen movie set in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, in 1992, as hardship and poverty grind on, despite the country’s new-found independence, following the ...