Acclaimed film director Lana Gogoberidze was singled out for her contribution to Georgian cinema with a special new award at the Tbilisi International Film Festival on Thursday.
The ceremony to pay homage to Gogoberidze was held before the screening of her 1978 film Some Interviews on Personal Matters at the Festival, which is continuing in Georgia’s capital until Sunday evening.
The Prometheus prize was handed to the filmmaker by the Festival's general director Gaga Chkheidze, while the ceremony also featured tributes to Gogoberidze by Georgia's Minister of Culture and Monument Protection Mikheil Giorgadze and Festival jury members Ulrich and Erika Gregors.
Gogoberidze credited author of the film's screenplay Zaira Arsenishvili in her acceptance speech.
The film Some Interviews on Personal Matters was credited as "the first film to make mention of [Soviet dictator Joseph] Stalin's [labour] camps". It was a documentary work that featured celebrated Georgian actor Sophiko Chiaureli.
Born in 1928, Gogoberidze graduated from the Moscow State University's Faculty of Cinematography and worked at the Sovet-era Georgian Film studio, making nine feature films from 1961 to 1992.
The Prometheus prize was awarded for the first time this year by organisers of the Tbilisi Film Festival.
The prize will also be awarded to founder of the Yerevan Film Festival Harutyun Khachatryan on Sunday, the final day of the Tbilisi Festival.