National archives hosts international archive film festival for first time
The festival opened on Wednesday with Vasil Amashukeli’s 1912 first Georgian documentary film The Travels of Akaki Tsereteli. National archives press office
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Georgia’s national archives is hosting the first edition of Tbilisi international archive film festival, with about 80 documentary, artistic, animated films and chronicles made in Georgia and 12 other countries screened in the cinema hall of the venue between October Thursday and Saturday.
The festival opened on Wednesday with Vasil Amashukeli’s 1912 first Georgian documentary film The Travels of Akaki Tsereteli.
The Travels of Akaki Tsereteli by Vasil Amashukeli. Photo: national archieves press office.
Early motion pictures is the theme of the first edition of the festival, with directors from around Europe and the United States featured with their works preserved at archives, film libraries and museums.
The films selected for the festival were produced by pioneering directors ranging from the Lumiere and Skladanowsky brothers to Jan Krízenecký, Georges Méliès, Aurélio Paz dos Reis, Lado Mujiri, George Pallu, Oktavijan Miletic, Wim Wenders and others between 1895-1960.
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Electronic versions of posters and programmes of Georgian theatrical performances, documentary and animated movies and other events have been published on the website of the National Archives of Georgia.
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Archival exhibits ranging from documents on lives of religious figures in Georgia, photographs of civilian engineering projects and media publications were restored by the National Archives of Georgia over the past year, the institution said in its annual summary.
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