Director Dmitry Mamuliya in film fest line-up of Venice Biennale with ‘The Criminal Man’
Tweet 
Share
The Criminal Man, the latest feature by Georgian director Dmitry Mamuliya, is among films selected to be screened at this year’s Venice Biennale, when the cinema section of major international artistic event opens next week.
At the 76th edition of the Venice International Film Festival, organised as part of the biennial, the Georgian-Russian co-production will be introduced to viewers in the Horizons section.
Featuring a cast of Georgian actors, The Criminal Man follows a young engineer whose life takes a dramatic turn after he becomes a witness to the murder of a popular sportsperson.
#BiennaleCinema2019 #Venezia76 #Orizzonti #TheCriminalMan by #DmitryMamuliya tells the story of Giorgi Meskhi, deputy-chief engineer from an industrial town, whose life turns upside down when he accidentally witnesses the murder of a famous goalkeeper → https://t.co/AkPv1kjEAK pic.twitter.com/A5RC4aVKeY
— Biennale di Venezia (@la_Biennale) August 18, 2019
Produced at the Tbilisi-based Millimeter Film, the work involved co-production effort by Mikhail Karasev and Tamara Nikishina. Anton Gromov and Alisher Khamidkhodzhaev created cinematography for the feature, while Georgian artists Nika Kocharov and Sophie Villy wrote the musical score for the film.
In six screenings at the festival, Mamuliya’s feature-length work will be in one of the eight film sections and will be part of the competitive line-up.
The filmmaker, who works as artistic director of the Moscow School of New Cinema, has directed four works since 2007 including Another Sky, awarded the Special Jury Mention at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, among other honours.
Mamuliya has also worked as a screenwriter and is cinema theorist while teaching at the Berlin-based German Academy of Film and Television.
The full programme of screenings at the Venice International Film Festival can be found here.
Georgian director Misho Antadze’s documentary The Harvest collected the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC)’s Award at the Jeonju International Film Festival in Seoul this week, distinguishing the film about the relationship between nature, technology, and the changing landscape.
Fishing, a short by film director Tornike Bziava, has been revealed among winners of the Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards, with the prize for the auteur work following earlier awards from Georgian and foreign festivals over the past few years.
Filmmaker Giorgi Tavartkiladze’s short Bad People, presenting a story from the tumultuous 1990s in Georgia, has claimed its second international prize following the film’s premiere last month.
Georgia will present two films at this year’s 71st Venice International Film Festival.
A selection of some of the latest Georgian cinema is part of an upcoming screening programme at Brussels' BOZAR Centre of Fine Arts, where the third edition of the BRIDGES. East of West Film Days festival will run this month.
Georgian actor Niko Tavadze was watched on big screen by American audiences in the premiere of The Execution, a Russian-produced crime thriller feature, at the Austin, Texas-based Fantastic Fest this week.