David Gurgulia among 10 filmmakers to follow at Karlovy Vary festival

Georgian filmmaker David Gurgulia has been selected among 10 new directors to be showcased at the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film Festival starting later this month.

Picked with his film Dialect, Gurgulia will be brought to the festival for screenings, master classes and networking with cinema professionals.

Dialect will be screened in the Czech festival’s Future Frames: Ten New Filmmakers To Follow section.

The sub-program will also feature filmmakers including Best Swiss Short Film Award-winning Lora Mure-Ravaud and Portugal’s David Pinheiro Vicente, author of the Berlinale-premiered Where the Summer Goes.

Gurgulia’s film itself centres around Mithras, a sound engineer setting out for a "sacred reserve” to learn the language of God.

The seven days spent together with the community at the reserve, however, change not only Mithras but also those who speak the divine language”, says a summary from Karlovy Vary.

Gurgulia started his work on the 29-minute film in 2017, selecting a cast of Georgian actors and producing with Studio123.

The Future Frames section is organised by European Film Promotion and supported by Creative Europe, a European Commission program supporting culture and arts projects.