Panopticon

Panopticon (2025) is a Georgian coming-of-age drama you can watch online on iFILM. In post-Soviet Georgia, a withdrawn teenager named Sandro is left largely alone: his father departs for a monastery and his mother works abroad.

Stripped of his familiar certainties, the boy starts working out who he is. He falls in with Lasha, a peer being pulled into an ultra-right movement, while also beginning to explore his own sexuality. Old religious habits grind against the fresh temptations of freedom, and Sandro sits right on that fault line.

The feature debut of director George Sikharulidze, the film travelled the international festival circuit. It's an honest, un-preachy study of finding your footing once the adults are gone and the country is shifting faster than you can grow up. Stream Panopticon (2025) online on iFILM.