Tbilisi International Film Festival 2022 announces winners
The jury’s special award was given to ‘Klondike’, the film by Ukrainian director Maryna Er Gorbach and the honorary Prometheus was received by Polish and Georgian film directors, Agnieszka Holland and Otar Ioseliani. Photo: Tbilisi International Film Festival/Facebook
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The 23rd annual Tbilisi International Film Festival concluded as the international jury announced the list of winners in four nominations on Saturday at the awards ceremony held at the Amirani Cinema.
The Festival's main prize Golden Prometheus was awarded to winners in the following categories:
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Georgian filmmaker Ioseb Bliadze’s A Room of My Own was awarded the Festival’s main prize Golden Prometheus for the Best Fiction Film, the feature follows Tina, who rents a room from the vibrant Megi, with the latter becoming her pathway to discovering independence without being reliant on men under a patriarchal society.
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Katalina Bakradze’s My Friend Andro was selected by the jury as the Best Short Fiction Film and shows 22-year-old conservatoire student Andro being filmed by his friend Mariam while performing magic tricks, with the audience soon becoming increasingly uneasy as the tricks get more complicated.
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The Golden Prometheus for the Best Documentary Film has been granted to Tekla Aslanishvili’s experimental documentary film A state in a State that follows the construction, disruption, and fragmentation of railroads in the South Caucasus and Caspian regions.
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Hey, Gunesh! directed by Ana Jegnaradze and Marita Tevzadze has been named the Best Short Documentary Film as the film follows 9-year-old Azerbaijani girl Gunesh who lives in the traditional Georgian countryside among the herds. Her father Fasha doesn’t want her to get married as soon as she finishes school as is usually the case in their community.
The jury’s special award was given to Klondike, the film by Ukrainian director Maryna Er Gorbach and the honorary Prometheus was received by Polish and Georgian film directors, Agnieszka Holland and Otar Ioseliani.
The representatives of the European Union in Georgia also awarded Plan 75, directed by Japanese director Chie Hayakawa, with the Human Rights in Film prize.
Congratulations to Chie Hayakawa, this year's winner of the "EU Human Rights in Film Award" at Tbilisi International Film Festival for her film "Plan 75".
— EU Delegation Georgia ???????? (@EUinGeorgia) December 11, 2022
Special mention by the Jury for @MarynaErGorbach for "Klondike".
All info: https://t.co/YZVKyGXyMB#StandUp4HumanRights pic.twitter.com/Wu0tAlw6IV
The award ceremony ended with the screening of Dito Tsintsadze’s film Roxy.
More than 60 films were screened at the 23rd Festival, including six full-length and ten short feature films, as well as eight full-length and seven short documentaries presented in the Georgian Panorama section of the Festival.
Georgian filmmaker Levan Tutberidze’s feature film The Resting Samurai, the co-production of Georgia and the Netherlands, has been awarded the best visual arts prize, the Georgian Public Broadcaster announced on Thursday.
The 23rd Tbilisi International Film Festival will open on Sunday with the screening of the film ‘Mr Jones’ by Agnieszka Holland, the Polish film director and the President of the European Film Academy, at the Amirani Cinema, with the director attending the opening event.
Filmmaker Ioseb Bliadze has collected the latest plaudit for his feature A Room of My Own as the jury of the Cologne International Film Festival honoured the work with the NRW Film Prize.
Georgian actors Mariam Khundadze and Taki Mumladze swept both of the Best Actress Awards at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on the weekend for their roles in director Ioseb Bliadze's latest feature A Room of My Own.
The upcoming edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, one of the prominent annual European cinema events, will screen A Room of My Own, the latest work by director Ioseb Bliadze.
ZEG, the first international storytelling festival in the region, will be held in Tbilisi between June 8-10, bringing together leading professionals from various industries who will share their unique ways of telling a story.