Georgian film awarded top prize at DaKINO Festival

A Georgian movie has triumphed in the international arena after receiving the main award at a Romanian film festival.

Georgian short film Dinola directed by Mariam Khatchvani was awarded the top DaKINO 24 Trophy in the Short Fiction Competition category at the DaKINO International Film Festival, held in Bucharest from March 26-29.

Georgian film Dinola awarded the top DaKINO 24 Trophy at the DaKINO International Film Festival in Bucharest. 

The fictional movie told the tale of little girl named Dinola, who lived in Ushguli, a remote village in Georgia. Her father had recently passed and the whole village was taking part in the funeral preparations.

The film describes the ancient tradition where after the head of the household dies, the first man to marry the widow has every right to choose to take the woman away and leave her child behind – alone and abandoned.

Short films are a powerful medium that can deliver information about historic traditions and show remote places almost completely unknown to most people in a reasonably short time.

Watch the movie below: