FNE Country Report 2015: Georgia

Georgia faced two important events in 2015 - it joined the Creative Europe Programme at the end of February 2015 and introduced its first tax rebate law, which will start…
15-12-2015

GRANTS: Georgia Announces Project Development Grants

TBILISI: Georgian National Film Center will allot project development grants totaling 28,583 EUR / 75,000 GEL to five features films. They include new projects by George Ovashvili, Rusudan Chkonia and…
14-12-2015

Georgia Announces Script Development Grants

TBILISI: Georgian National Film Centre will grant 46,229 EUR /120,000 GEL for the script development of eight feature films dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
11-12-2015

FESTIVALS: Motherland Wins Tbilisi Festival

TBILISI: Motherland directed by Senem Tüzen won the Golden Prometheus for Best Film at the 16th Tbilisi International Film Festival which concluded on 6 December 2015. Solomon directed by Zaza…
08-12-2015

FESTIVALS: Tbilisi Festival Opens with Moira

TBILISI: The 16th Tbilisi International Film Festival will open on 30 November 2015 with a premiere of the Georgian film by Levan Tutberidze Moira produced by Cinetech Film. The festival…
30-11-2015

PRODUCTION: Mariam Khatchvani Shoots Dede

TBILISI: Mariam Khatchvani is in production with her debut feature, Dede. The first part of shooting took place in autumn 2015 and winter shooting is set for January 2016. The…
27-11-2015

Georgia to Finalise Cash Rebate Law End of November

TBILISI: Georgian National Film Center (GNFC) will have a cash rebate law by the end of November 2015 that will provide a 20 percent rebate of the qualifying expenses and…
13-11-2015

FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Venice

COTTBUS: Georgian writer/director/producer Rusudan Chkonia’s lingering problems with purchasing a new flat inspire her black comedy Venice, which was pitched at Connecting Cottbus on 5 November 2015. The project won…
06-11-2015

GRANTS: Georgia Announces Script Development Funds for Comedies and Children Films

TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center allotted 22,841.7 EUR / 60,000 GEL for the script development of six comedies and children’s feature films.
05-11-2015

GRANTS: Georgia Announces Coproduction Grants

TBILISI: Georgian National Film Centre allotted 341,769 EUR / 900,000 GEL to three majority feature coproductions directed by Revaz Gigineishvili, Dimitri Tsintsadze and George Ovashvili, but the latter refused the…
03-11-2015

FESTIVALS: Slovak Comeback Wins Georgian CineDOC Festival

TBILISI: The Slovak film Comeback directed by Miro Remo won the main prize of the international competition at the first CineDoc IDFF at the awards ceremony on 24 October 2015.
28-10-2015

FESTIVALS: CinéDOC-Tbilisi Ready to Kick Off

TBILISI: The 3rd edition of CinéDOC-Tbilisi, the only International Documentary Film Festival in the Caucasus, will take place from 21 to 25 October 2015.
21-10-2015

FNE at BIAFF 2015: Winners of the 10th Batumi International ArtHouse Film Festival

BATUMI: The 10th Batumi International Art-house Film Festival (BIAFF) held in Batumi 13-20 September 2015 gave its Grand Prix to the Georgian born director Bakur Bakuradze for his film Broder…
22-09-2015 m

Obituary: Writer Rezo Cheishvili

TBILISI: Acclaimed Georgian writer and screenwriter Revaz (Rezo) Cheishvili passed away at 82. He wrote the script of Eldar Shengelaia's famous Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983, Kartuli Pilmi), an…
15-09-2015

Georgia and Lithuania Announce Their Oscar Bids

TBILISI/VILNIUS: Levan Tutberidze's Moira and Alanté Kavaïté’s The Summer of Sangaile have been selected by Georgia and Lithuania to compete in the 88th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language film.
14-09-2015

Batumi International Arthouse Film Festival Announces Line Up

BATUMI: A total of 49 films are competing in the four sections of the 10th Batumi Arthouse Film Festival, one of the major film events in the Black Sea and…
09-09-2015

PRODUCTION: Georgian Refugee Boat Enguri in Postproduction

TBILISI: Vakhtang Varazi’s 72-minute documentary Refugee Boat Enguri is in postproduction with the premiere set for spring 2016.
17-08-2015

PRODUCTION: Georgian French Doc Listen to Silence Ready for Postproduction

TBILISI: Mariam Chachia’s documentary Listen to Silence, a Georgian/French documentary focusing on a deaf-mute children’s school of Tbilisi, will go into postproduction in January 2016, after wrapping shooting in June…
07-08-2015

Georgia Announces Call for International Coproduction Grants

TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center (GNFC), has opened a grant call for international feature coproductions in the frame of the European Convention on Cinematographic Production.
06-08-2015

Georgia Prepares to Launch Tax Incentives Scheme in 2016

TBILISI: Georgia will launch a tax rebate scheme in January 2016 with a 20 percent rebate of the qualifying expenses and an additional 2 percent for Georgian elements. Discussions about…
24-07-2015