The Nylon Christmas Tree

The Nylon Christmas Tree (1985) is a Georgian comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Rezo Esadze. New Year's Eve at a long-distance bus station: a handful of strangers stuck waiting for a bus that refuses to arrive.

Nobody in this film gets a proper name — just a label. The short one. The tall one. The sharp-eyed one. The dame with the chignon. As the delay stretches, tension builds the way it does among people who barely know each other but can't leave. The plastic Christmas tree passes between them like something nobody quite knows what to do with. Esadze made a compact piece of Georgian cinema: holiday wrapping around people with ordinary, unspoken worries. Watch The Nylon Christmas Tree (1985) online on iFILM.