See filmmaker Salome Alexi’s award-winning debut ’Line of Credit’ online

Georgian filmmaker Salome Alexi's award-winning debut feature film Line of Credit can now be seen on a newly launched online platform that showcases contemporary art-house and festival films.

Alexi's 2014 work was picked by founders of Filmatique - a New York, United States-based cinema collective - to become part of the first group of films available for streaming on the website.

Launched earlier this month, the streaming website offered cinema enthusiasts access to a constantly updated catalogue of films, in addition to filmmaker interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and more.

Watch the trailer for Salome Alexi's 2014 film 'Line of Credit' below:

The online platform aimed to raise awareness of films "that are socially, politically, and culturally relevant".

By focusing on cinema as a tool for discourse and social change, the mission statement of Filmatique is to expand and inform audiences of films representing communities rarely depicted in commercial cinema," said founders of the platform.

Alexi's feature debut Line of Credit was selected to stream on Filmatique to highlight the film's socially-focused theme of the effects of the global financial crisis in local Georgian context.

The film follows a Georgian woman in her 40s who owns a shop in the country's capital Tbilisi. As the global recession hits the economy, she is forced to take out loans to keep her business afloat.

The film won Best Film at the 2015 New Directors/New Films Festival in New York last year.

In addition to the film's streaming, the new website also offered cinema-lovers an exclusive interview with the Georgian filmmaker:

Read the exclusive interview with Salomé Alexi, director of Line of Credit https://t.co/hAbjSKvPcWNow playing on https://t.co/zpM5faPsSXpic.twitter.com/975Pr9U1Lb

— Filmatique (@Filmatique) 21 November 2016

President and founder of Filmatique Lorenzo Fiuzzi told Agenda.ge it was "a pleasure to welcome Line of Credit to our programming, and to do our best to ensure people see a film we consider both powerful and important".

The award-winning film was picked to stream on the platform along with two other productions in the initial phase.

Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai's 2014 work Red Amnesia found its place in the collection for its depiction of the life of a woman whose experiences mirror those of an entire generation under the legacy of the country's Cultural Revolution.

The third film selected to stream on the online platform was Latvia's 2014 Oscar bid Modris, directed by Juris Kursietis. The film represented a "naturalistic portrait of a Latvian teenager adrift in an indifferent, austere society," said the platform's preview of the work.