Georgian director Nino Basilia awarded at Cairo International Film Festival

Georgian filmmaker Nino Basilia has won a major award at the 38th Cairo International Film Festival.

Basilaia’s film Anna’s Life received the FIPRESCI Prize, principal prize of the International Federation of Film Critics yesterday.

The jury said that the film was lauded "For the emotional portrait of a woman who struggles in a difficult society, and tries to find her way to live with her autistic son.”

Actor Ekaterine Demetradze plays single mother Anna in the film Anna's Life. Photo from www.newmorningfilms.com.

For Basilia, the win comes after the film's recent success at the Valencia International Film Festival Cinema Jove. There Anna’s Life collected the top prize for young talent.

Before that the film received one of the three main prizes of the Construir Cine International Film Festival in Argentina.

The award-winning work is Basilia's second feature film. It comes one year after her 2015 film Naked.

Anna's Life premiered at the Gothenburg Film Festival in Sweden earlier this year after winning a contest by the Georgian National Film Centre. It was selected to screen at the Beijing International Film Festival in March.