Tbilisi International Film Festival to open with screening of film by Polish director, European Film Academy President
The representatives of the European Union in Georgia will award the best film on the theme of human rights, selected by the jury, with the Human Rights in Film prize. The award has been established in connection with the annually celebrated International Human Rights Day. Photo: Tbilisi International Film Festival
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The 23rd Tbilisi International Film Festival will open on Sunday with the screening of the film ‘Mr Jones’ by Agnieszka Holland, the Polish film director and the President of the European Film Academy, at the Amirani Cinema, with the director attending the opening event.
Organisers have announced that the Polish director would be presented in the festival's traditional ‘Director in Focus’ section, which shows a small retrospective of a selected guest director during the event, and Holland, along with Georgian director Otar Ioseliani would be awarded the honorary Prometheus.
At the invitation of the Festival and the Goethe Institute, the famous Austrian director Ulrich Seidl will also visit the festival as an honoured guest and his two new films ‘Rimini’ and ‘Sparta’ will be presented in the ‘Made in Germany’ section of the festival.
Special attention will be devoted to the presentation of full-length feature and full-length documentary film projects on the industrial platform. The Georgian films competition programme will feature six full-length and ten short feature films, as well as eight full-length and seven short documentaries.
A maximum of seven projects will be pre-selected in different categories and as pitching presentations, they will be shown on Thursday and Friday and will be evaluated by an international jury. The winning project will be announced on Saturday at the closing ceremony of the TIFF. In addition to the competition programme, the festival will also present the best works of European and world cinema in various sections.
The representatives of the European Union in Georgia will award the best film on the theme of human rights, selected by the jury, with the Human Rights in Film prize. The award has been established in connection with the annually celebrated International Human Rights Day.
The closing and awards ceremony of the Festival, organised by the Centre of Film Arts Prometheus, will be held on Saturday, with the screening of Dito Tsintsadze’s film ‘Roxy’.
The full programme of the festival is available here.
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