Georgia opens 11th International Tbilisi Film Festival

Georgia is opening the 11th International Tbilisi Film Festival today.
The festival will show some 100 films from 19 countries on December
6-12. The festival is aimed at helping Georgian cinematography to get
closer to the Western cinema industry, Georgia Online reports.

The festival will see hundreds of foreign directors, actors,
producers, cinema specialists, managers and journalists. Well-known
cinema figures will have free master-classes for young film directors.
Cinema theatres Rustaveli and Amirani will traditionally be the hosts
of the event.

Georgian director Otar Ioseliani will open the festival with his
„Shantrapa“, the event will be concluded with a première of an Aleko
Tsabadze film.

A famous Serbian director Zelimir Zilnik will be the judge.

The contest program will select the best film and the best director.
The winners will be awarded with the golden status called „The Golden
Prometheus“ and the „Serbian Prometheus“, made by a well-known
sculptor Tamara Kvesitadze.

One of the films will also receive the Paradzhanov Award, of the
International Art and Culture Fund. Another reward is the special
prize of human rights, which will be awarded by the EU monitoring
mission.