Berlin begins 3 months of celebrating Georgian films
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For the next three months, Georgian cinema will be in focus in Berlin, as the German capital hosts weekly screenings of modern Georgian films to local and foreign cinema-goers.
More than a dozen showings of contemporary Georgian films will screen once a week within the Georgian Film Weeks in Berlin event, starting in Germany’s capital next week.
Every Thursday from March 3 until May 26, cinema-goers can explore the works created by dozens of Georgian and foreign artists, including acclaimed film directors Tinatin Kajrishvili, Nana Ekvtimishvili, Zaza Urushadze and Giorgi Ovashvili.
A still from the documentary Pirimze, directed by Sophia Tabatadze. Photo from www.e-mergingartists.blogspot.com.
Curated by art critic Lily Furstenow-Khositashvili, the screenings were conceived as a retrospective of contemporary Georgian cinema while also looking at the challenges and issues facing Georgian filmmakers.
The focus will be on the current artistic tendencies, works in progress, points of influence and controversies as well as impediments in the spheres of media art, new technologies, [the] film industry and the related scientific discourse," read a description of the event.
The creation by artist Tea Nili was selected as image of the Georgian Film Weeks in Berlin. Photo by Tea Nili.
The program was organised and hosted by Workshop of Culture, credited by organisers of the occasion as "one of the leading locations in Berlin [for] interdisciplinary art and cultural dialogue".
The screenings will launch on March 3 with director Giorgi Shengelaia's 2001 documentary In Vino Veritas. Organisersannounced this film as a "fascinating cinematographic journey into the centuries old history of Georgian arts".
Follow-up films will include the 2005 feature drama The Man from the Embassy bydirector Dito Tsintsadze, 2011 documentary Bakhmaro by filmmaker Salome Jashi and director Sophia Tabatadze's 2011 work Pirimze.
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