The 12th Tbilisi International Film Festival was opened on 6 December 2011. The festival opening film was "Faust" by Alexander Sakurov (Russia, 2011).

The festival program consisted of following programs:

· Made in Germany

· From Sweden with Love (Swedish Cinema)

· Independent Movies from the USA

· Georgian Panorama

· Retrospective of Leos Carax



This year the festival was not able to host competition program.



Special Prize was awarded to the film "Will There be a Theatre up There?!" by Nana Janelidze



Special Mentions were given to:



· The Nest by Tornike Bziava

· Waiting for Mom by Nana Ekvtmishvili

· Bakhmaro by Salome Jashi

· Salt White by Keti Machavariani



The 12th Tbilisi International Film Festival was closed with the film "Innocent Saturday" by Alexander Mindadze (Russia / Germany/Ukraine).



Documentary Film Workshop PITCH.DOC was held parallel to the festival 6 South Caucasian projects were trained for two days. 6 projects had intensive training with experienced tutors Paul Pauwels (Belgium), Hana Rezkowa (Czech Republic) and Nino Ordjonikidze (Georgia).



Award Commission consisted of: Salome Sepashvili (GNFC), Giorgi Gachechiladze (GPB) Anna Ryaboshenko (OSGF) Angelo Curti (Producer Italy), Gorki Glasser-Muller (Republic of Chile, Sweden), Hana Rezkova (Czech Republic IDF), Rebecca de Pass (France/ FIDmarseille).



The project Left Behind by Anna Tsimintia and Misha Svanidze was awarded with 2500 GEL for the project development. Award was supported by Georgian National FilmCenter.



The project Word in pain by Taguhi Torrosyan and Davit Stepanyan will participate in Doc Launch Presentation in frames of One world film Festival in Prague, March 2012.



The project Venera was awarded with special prize 500 euro for the project development from Swedish Director Gorki Glasser-Muller.



Pitch Doc was organized by Sakdoc Film, supported by Georgian National FilmCenter.

Project partner: Goethe Institute.