Ineke Smits

Holy Electricity (2025)

When young Gonga and his cousin Bart find a suitcase full of rusty crosses in a scrap yard, Bart gets the idea to turn them into neon crucifixes and sell them door-to-door to the gullible inhabitants of Tbilisi. Their crusade through the suburbs of the cit ...

Little Man, Time and the Troubadour (2019)

Born in Abkhazia and raised in Soviet Georgia, Sipa Labakhua had to flee with his family to Moscow when the USSR collapsed and war broke out early 90's. Years after his untimely return to his warridden birthplace, Sipa takes to the road with his autobiogra ...

Stand By Your President (2014)

Originally from the southwest of the Netherlands, Sandra Roelofs met Mikheil Saakashvili while studying in Strasbourg. She fell for this politically-minded Georgian's relentless charm and followed him first to the United States and then to his homeland. Sh ...

The Aviatrix of Kazbek (2010)

On the flat island of Texel, Marie is a girl who has a vivid imagination who dreams about mountains. She feels oppressed by the strict religious island community and its narrow-minded way of life. Being the only girl in a big and poor family during wartime ...

Transit Dubai (2008)

In the heart of the Middle East, a metropolis is mushrooming. In Dubai, the city where anything seems possible, one after the other skyscraper shoots up. To realise the property developers' plans, workers are called in from India, Pakistan and Nepal, who e ...

Poetin's Mama (2003)

Magonia (2001)

A sea faring father, a man living on the edge of mental sanity, periodically sees his young son. During the visits, the father tells the boy stories, exotic as well as close to home, about Magonia. This is a mythical place where clouds represent impossible ...

Nostalgia (1998)

"Two years ago [c. 1997], Tato Kotetishvili went to Georgia, his birthplace, where he hadn't been for ten years. After he had come to Holland and found a partner in Rotterdam, the civil war started in Georgia so he was unable to return home. The reason to ...

Hoerenpreek (1996)

Single play over drie prostituees in een peepshow. ...

Rose, Violet & Lily (1992)

"Slightly absurdist sketch of a Dutch female reporter who gets stuck in a Georgia devoid of petrol. ...

Rose, Violet & Lily (1992)

"Slightly absurdist sketch of a Dutch female reporter who gets stuck in a Georgia devoid of petrol. ...