Award-winning Georgian film Tangerines nominated for top Spanish prize
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An award-winning Georgian film will compete for one of the most prestigious Spanish cinema prizes later this month.
Georgia's 2015 Oscar bid Tangerines was nominated for the Best European Film award of the Gaudi Awards, with the competition's winner to be announced on January 31.
Director Zaza Urushadze's film will be in contention for the prize with three other European productions.
Pride by British director Matthew Warchus, Force Majeureby Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund and Clouds of Sils Maria by France's Olivier Assayas will be the other competitors for the award.
A still from Tangerines by director Zaza Urushadze.
The Gaudi Awards will also announce winners for 21 other categories.
Tangerines won awards at Warsaw, Mannheim-Heidelberg, Palm Springs and Seattle film festivals and screened at the European Parliament and United Nations (UN) headquarters last year.
The film is set in the midst of the Georgian-Abkhazian war in the beginning of the 1990s when two Estonian immigrant farmers choose 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 unlikely cohabitants have to confront their feelings for each other on the backdrop of hostilities around them while they recuperate in the hospitality of the hosts.
Organised by the Catalan Film Academy, the annual Gaudi Awards event was first held in 2009.
The full list of films nominated for Gaudi Awards categories can be viewed here.
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