Maybe you’re wondering why we’re screening a Georgian film, when geographically, Georgia might not be part of Europe at all. Most Georgians themselves like to think it is.<\/p>\n
We thought there are enough cultural similarities to warrant its presence in our program. Georgia was part of the former Soviet Union alongside other Eastern European countries, it has a diverse and multicultural population, and yes, it also displayed clear signs of that\u00a0fascination with the West<\/a>.<\/p>\n Unrelated but note-worthy, Georgia gave the world comrade Stalin, a figure still strangely revered by its co-nationals, maybe as a claim to fame. Rumour has it you can still drop by any local market in Tbilisi and pick up Stalin memorabilia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maybe you’re wondering why we’re screening a Georgian film, when geographically, Georgia might not be part of Europe at all. Most Georgians themselves like to think it is. We thought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euraw-stories","tag-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}