CineDOC-Tbilisi festival announces winners of 2021 Focus Caucasus competition
CineDOC-Tbilisi is the major international documentary film festival in the Caucasus. Photo: CineDOC/Facebook
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This year's edition of CineDOC-Tbilisi festival has announced winner documentaries of 2021 Focus Caucasus competition featuring the newest films from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The Focus Caucasus Award was given to the film 'Storgetnya' directed by Hovig Hagopian (France/Armenia), which ‘captures fragments of an absurd, dark and weird space’, based on the jury assessments.
In strict ‘tableaux’ very well shot and haunted by peculiar characters, step by step the purpose of a strange situation is exposed”, the assessment further reads.
Moreover, 'The Dead Will Understand' a film by Georgian directors Ana Jegnaradze and Marita Tevzadze has received special jury mention award, while 'Taming the Garden' by another Georgian director Salome Jashi has received special jury mention.
CineDOC-Tbilisi festival, which kicked off on August 15, ran through September 15:
Works from documentary filmmakers were screened in digital spaces in a daily programme amid the pandemic, with the festival headlined by the Best of CineDOC-Tbilisi selection in cooperation with the Georgian Public Broadcaster, DAFilms and Adjara TV channel.
The Best of CineDOC-Tbilisi section was screened on workdays, while viewers were invited to spend their weekends visiting the festival website for finding 10 recent works from the customary Focus Caucasus programme, dedicated to exploring people and societies of the region.
A freshly designed series of screenings will bring some of the most engaging new documentaries to viewers in this year's CineDOC-Tbilisi festival, launching this Sunday and running throughout the next month.
Beniamino Barrese’s Sundance-nominated The Disappearance of My Mother took the principal award of the CineDOC-Tbilisi International Documentary Film Festival, which closed in Tbilisi this week.
A premiere of famed director Dziga Vertov’s newly discovered century-old film, a Sundance-winning work from North Macedonia and focus on filmmakers from Hungary will make this year’s CineDOC-Tbilisi International Documentary Film Festival a major cinema celebration in the capital starting next week.
A selection of documentary works in numerous categories, internationally recognised guests and high-profile jury members will be part of this year’s CineDOC-Tbilisi International Documentary Film Festival, set to open its doors to cinephiles next month.
CinéDOC-Tbilisi international documentary film festival, a major film event on the annual domestic cultural calendar in Georgia, will mark its anniversary 10th edition starting this Sunday at the historical Apollo Cinema venue in the country's Black Sea city of Batumi.