Georgian film Tangerines named Best European Film
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Georgian director Zaza Urushadze's award-winning film Tangerines has added another prize to its collection after being named Best European Film at one of the most prestigious Spanish film awards.
The annual Gaudi Awards selected the Estonian-Georgian co-production from a shortlist of four cinema projects from Europe.
Yesterday’s ceremony in Barcelona also awarded films in 20 other categories.
In the past year Tangerines screened at festivals across Europe and the United States (US) and won awards at four cinema festivals before it was nominated for the 8th Gaudi Awards in January.
The Gaudi Awards prize was awarded by the Catalan Film Academy annually since 2009. Photo from Catalan Film Academy.
The film was also shown at the headquarters of European Parliament in Luxembourg and United Nations (UN) in New York.
Earlier Tangerines was selected as Georgia's 2015 Oscar bid in the foreign language section.
The film’splot is set in the midst of the Georgian-Abkhazian war in the beginning of the 1990s when two Estonian immigrant farmers chose to stay in their tangerine farm in the conflict zone to collect the seasonal crop.
Their home becomes a potential hotspot of conflict when two wounded soldiers – one Abkhazian and the other Georgian – arrive at the doorstep looking for medical aid.
The annual Gaudi Awards, named after Spanish Catalan modernist architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926), was annually awarded since 2009.
The complete list of winners of the 8th Gaudi Awards can be viewed here.
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