’Scary Mother’, ’Dede’, ’Khibula’ selected for Sao Paulo film fest
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Three Georgian films are part of this year’s selection for the Sao Paulo International Film Festival, as Mariam Khatchvani’s Dede, George Ovashvili’s Khibula and Ana Urushadze’s Scary Mother were all picked for screening at the event.
The three works will represent Georgian directors in a program of nearly 400 films set to be viewed over the next two weeks.
Two of the three features will screen within the New Directors Competition, whereas Ovashvili’s work will debut to Brazilian audiences in the International Perspective.
The filmmakers from Georgia find themselves in the festival roster that includes names like Ai Weiwei, Aki Kaurismaeki and Michael Haneke.
Dede and Scary Mother will be discovered by cinema enthusiasts in Sao Paulo on the back of their prize-winning screenings at other festivals.
Khatchvani’s work was honoured at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival whereas Urushadze’s feature debut collected awards from juries of the Sarajevo and Locarno festivals.
The two works are also among nominees selected for honours at this year's Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
The Sau Paulo festival launched earlier today:
In Dede, Khatchvani camera follows Dina, a young woman in Georgia’s remote, mountainous Svaneti province.
Dina’s grandfather has promised her to David, who is returning from the war. But with him comes a comrade-in-arms, Gegi, and Dina falls in love”, said the festival’s profile for the film.Urushadze, an emerging young director, picked a plot featuring Georgian housewife Manana as the protagonist for Scary Mother.
Manana’s decision to devote herself to the passion of writing means she encounters an outcome she had feared when she reads her first published work to family members.
The script for Ovashvili’s Khibula is centred around a president ousted by a coup in his country and forced to flee with the hope of reaching a mountainous village where he has been promised safety.
The full Sao Paulo festival program can be found on the official website here.
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