Short film ’Three Steps’ among Open Place Festival winners
Tweet 
Share
Young filmmaker Soso Bliadze’s short Three Steps, a story of a girl coming of age in a difficult environment, was revealed among the winners at the Open Place International Short Film Festival in Latvia on Monday.
The 2017-premiered work was distinguished with the Best Script award of the festival hosted in city of Rezekne.
Written by Bliadze alongside Giga Liklikadze and Elmar Imanov, the plot follows a father and daughter living in a poverty-stricken community in an outskirt of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi. The two struggle for daily survival, sometimes by resorting to stealing.
Along with the struggle against poverty, Mariam also has to deal with the facts of becoming a woman and the fear that her father would betray her in order to make money”, said a summary of the script from the filmmakers.
The Best Script prize was one of 10 awards of the festival, with the jury team involving professor Arvo Iho, actor Lilita Ozolina, film director Christian Werner, director and screenwriter Algis Arlauskas and actor Irina Shevchuk.
Three Steps was among 25 short films in the official competition of the festival, selected from 411 initial submissions.
Imanov photographed among award-winners of the festival on Monday. Photo: Open Place Festival.
The film is the second short work by Bliadze and premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands in January this year.
It was also shown to cinema-goers attending the Kiev International Short Film Festival in April.
The Open Place International Short Film Festival was launched in Latvia in 2013 to promote cinema in Baltic Sea countries.
A short film by a Georgian director has become the first production from the country to be selected among finalists of the Manhattan Short Film Festival, an event screening to over 100,000 film enthusiasts.
The newly premiered short film Three Steps by Georgian director Ioseb Bliadze will be screened to audiences attending the upcoming Kiev International Short Film Festival in Ukraine’s capital later this month.
Emerging Georgian filmmaker Ana Kvichidze has concluded the shooting for her maiden work Delgma, with first photos from the set released online before the short film premieres later this year.
Auteur films by famed cinema names and established contemporary directors will attract audiences to this year’s Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF) to Georgia’s Black Sea coast starting this Sunday.
Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa triumphed at the Batumi International Art-House Film Fest (BIAFF) on Georgia’s Black Sea coast by taking the Grand Prix of the event for his feature A Gentle Creature.
Georgian director Zaza Khalvashi will premiere his latest feature Namme to audiences attending next month’s Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), a major cinema event in Asia.
Film director Ioseb Bliadze has picked up two more international awards for his short Three Steps after two German film festivals honoured the filmmaker last weekend.
Audiences visiting one of the leading short film festivals in Europe next month will learn about characters from two films by Georgian directors Vakhtang Jajanidze and Nino Shaburishvili.