Georgian director’s short film ‘Exodus’ screens in Ireland
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An award-winning short film by a Georgian filmmaker is one of a hundred films from all over the world that will screen at one of Europe's oldest film festivals this week.
From November 11-20, Ireland's south-west city of Cork will host the 61st Cork Film Festival and present around 100 films over the course of the festival.
Among the films on show will be the short film Exodus by Georgian director Vakhtang Jajanidze. It will screen at The Gate Cinema on November 19.
A scene from the short film 'Exodus'. Photo from the Cork Film Festival.
The 15-minute piece will screen in the World Shorts section alongside five other short films from the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Romania.
Jajanidze's film tells the tale of two middle-aged sisters named Lili and Tatiana, who live in western Georgia's industrial city Chiatura where opportunities for a better life are few and far between.
After one of the sisters gets the chance to leave the grim mining town and move to her daughter in another town, a story of emotional connection between the sisters unfolds in the run up to the day of their farewell.
See the trailer for the 2016 Cork Film Festival below:
Produced by Tbilisi-based Studio Artizm, the short film won the Special Jury Prize at the 2015 Tbilisi International Film Festival.
It is also scheduled to screen along with three other short films by Georgian filmmakers at the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in the Dutch city The Hague this week.
Other international festivals that already screened the short film this year were the Scandinavian International Film Festival in Finland's capital Helsinki and the Maine International Film Festival in the United States.
Filmmaker Jajanidze graduated from Tbilisi's Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgian State University in 2014 with a degree in film direction.
He has directed seven films since 2010, with Exodus being his latest work.
The Cork Film Festival was first held in 1956. As well as film screenings, the festival also hosts talks and industry events.
This year's event will bring together "Irish and international industry leaders to discuss the landscape in which [documentary] projects are conceived of, developed and distributed," said organisers.
See the full program of the 2016 festival here.
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