BIAFF 2012  Doc Films Competition section program and Jury   announced

Batumi 7th International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF), 16-23 September 2012.

BIAFF was established in 2006. The founder and organizer – Batumi Art-house “ARGANI”, official partner – Batumi City Hall.

Festival Supporters – fund “Open Society – Georgia”, Polish Film Institute, British Council, Company “Airzena”, Batumi International Container Terminal.

Festival General Media Partner -  Georgian Public Broadcaster and PIK TV

Festival Media Partners - Radio Fortuna / Fortuna +, Palitra Media, Adajra Tv, Artarea TV,STYLE  TV (www.style-tv.ru), Magazine – “Reiting”, “Bomond”, “Tbilisi OUT”, Newspaper “Georgia Today”. Online agencies – “Interpressnews” (www.ipn.ge), Publisity Group (www.publicity.ge)  

Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF) is being held annually in Batumi and is one of the major cultural events Georgia.  Among the honorary guests of festival were – Krzysztof Zanussi, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Jerzy Stuhr, Zbigniew Rybczyński (Poland), Jos Stelling (Netherlands), Otar Iosseliani, Mikheil Kobakhidze, Nino Kirtadze (France/Georgia), Nana Jorjadze, Irakli Kvirikadze (Georgia), Manijeh Hekmat, Dariush Mehrjui, Mohsen Amir Yousefi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ramtin Lavafipour (Iran), Paweł Pawlikowski (UK/Poland), Sidiqq Barmak (Afganistan) etc.

In this year BIAFF program will be presented in different sections with almost 40 full-length films and 40 short length films from 20-22 countries.

BIAFF management already arranged choosing of festival’s short length film international competition Jury and short length films.

 

BIAFF 2012 Doc films competition Jury:

1. The head of the Jury -  Radosław Piwowarski (Poland)
2. Fardin Sahebzamani, Iran
3. Guner Guler, Turkey
4. Sergey Bukovsky, Ukraine
5. Nino Orjonikidze , Georgia

BIAFF 2012 Doc Films competition section:

1.         Argentinian Lessons, Wojciech Staron Poland, 2011;  56 min.

2.         Back to the Square, by Peter Lom, Norway/Canada, 2012; 83 min.

3.         Canned Dreams, by Katja Gauriloff, Finland, 2012; 81 min. 

4.         La Bela Vista, by Alicia Cano, Uruguay/Germany, 2012; 63 min.

5.         My Home, Mohsen Amirosafiri, Iran, 2012; 49 min.

6.         Nachman, Alexander Shapiro, Ukraine, 2012; 41 min.

7.         Noseland, Aleksey Igudesman, Austria, 2012; 82 min.

8.         Reluctant Revolution, Sean McAllister, UK/Ireland, 2012; 70 min.

9.         Special Flight, Fernand Melgar, Switzerland, 2011; 100 min.

 

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