Georgian film premieres in Berlin film festival

A Georgian film with Georgian actors will be shown to the world for the first time at the Berlin International Film Festival.

The Georgia and France co-production, titled Patardzlebi (Brides) will be shown in the Berlinales Panorama selection.

The co-film is directed by Georgian woman Tinatin Kajrishvili. Shooting took place in late 2011 and the film went through the production phase in 2013.

Patardzlebi (Brides) tells the story of prisoners wives. The film describes the difficulties they face during the time their husband are in prisons, including their psychological and financial problems.

In 2011 July, the film was pitched during industry meetings, organised by Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Georgian National Film Center.

Georgian actors Mari Kitia, Darejan Khachidze, Giorgi Maskharashvili, Tamar Mamulashvili and Gvantsa Papuashvili feature in the film.

Although the Hollywood Reporter stated "Asian cinema will take center stage" at the Panorama this year, all three female programme directors -- Sophie Fillieres, Tinatin Kajrishvili, and Elfi Mikesch -- are European.

"Most recently invited are works from Norway, Ethiopia, Mexico, India, Iran, Georgia, Greece, Hungary and Austria - with returning filmmakers Elfi Mikesch and Umut Da?, who opened Panorama 2012 with Kuma, his directorial debut, reads the webpage of the Berlin International Film Festival.

Panoramas main programme will open on February 6 with a Vietnamese sci-fi N??c set in 2030, in which vegetables are cultivated on floating farms in the wake of rising sea levels.

Panorama 64^thBerlinale main-programme debut films will be shown at CinemaxX 7.

The full Pamorama lineup is:

Opening Film PanoramaNuoc (2030)

By Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo World premiere

Opening Film Panorama SpecialYves Saint Laurent

By Jalil Lespert International premiere

I'm Not Angry!

By Reza Dormishian International premiere

Blind

By Eskil Vogt European premiere

Difret

By Zeresenay Berhane Mehari European premiere

Fever

By Elfi Mikesch World premiere

Gueros

By Alonso Rupalacios World premiere

Highway

By Imtiaz Ali World premiere

Homeland

By Nao Kubota World premiere

In Grazia di Dio

By Edoardo Winspeare World premiere

Love Is Strange

By Ira Sachs International premiere

That Demon Within

By Dante Lam World premiere

Standing Aside, Watching

By Yorgos Servetas European premiere

Night Flight

By LeeSong Hee-il World premiere

Brides

By Tinatin Kajrishvili World premiere

Cracks in Concrete

By Umut Dag World premiere

The Midnight After

By Fruit Chan World premiere

Land of Storms

By Adam Csaszi World premiere

The Night

By Hao Zhou World premiere

If You Don't, I Will

By Sophie Fillieres World premiere

Calvary

By John Michael McDonagh European premiere

The Way He Looks

By Daniel Ribeiro World premiere

Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

By Michel Gondry European premiere

The Man of the Crowd

By Marcelo Gomes, Cao Guimaraes International premiere

Papilio Buddha

By Jayan Cherian European premiere

Stereo

By Maximilian Erlenwein World premiere

Test

By Chris Mason Johnson European premiere

The Better Angels

By A. J Edwards International premiere

The Lamb

By Kutlug Ataman World premiere

Things People Do

By Saar Klein World premiere

Triptych

By Robert LePage, Pedro Pires European premiere

Superegos

By Benjamin Heisenberg World premiere

Journey to the West

By Tsai Ming-liang World premiere