Permanent Travel – Georgia’s Restless Cinema

In a meeting with the directors of some of the films featured in the Permanent Travel – Georgia’s Restless Cinema Retrospective, we shall discuss the history of this country’s cinema, the diversity of its cinematic languages and approaches, as well as the preservation and conservation work carried out by national film archives.

Speakers
Anuna Bukia (film director)
George Ovashvili (film director)
Levan Lomjaria (Georgian National Film Center)
Mariam Kandelaki (film director)

Moderator
Marcelo Felix (curator of the retrospective Permanent Travel – Georgia’s Restless Cinema)

The event will be recorded and live streamed on Doclisboa’s YouTube and Facebook pages.

About the speakers

Anuna Bukia
Director, writer and social artist born in Georgia, in 1988. Has a degree in international media and geopolitics of the Caucasus and spent many years working on armed conflict topics through different media and projects. Her first documentary, Me gadavtsure Enguri, is a part of the human rights and democracy education programme in the school systems of Georgia. She is working on a performance against femicide, VOL 2 / Spain.

George Ovashvili
Georgian director, writer and producer. Has a degree in film-making from the Georgian State Institute of Cinema and Theatre (1996) and the New York Film Academy (2006). His first feature film, Gagma napiri, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won over 50 international prizes. His second feature, Simindis kundzuli, was shortlisted for the Academy’s best foreign language film in 2015. His third, Khibula, premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 2017.

Levan Lomjaria (Georgian National Film Center)
Studied at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University and completed a masters degree in arts under the mentorship of Hungarian film director Béla Tarr at the Sarajevo Film Academy. Since 2015, he has been working as a film director and has produced several short films, independent, no-budget experimental films, documentaries and installations, which were screened at various international film festivals. Currently works for the Georgian National Film Center.

Mariam Kandelaki
Film-maker and producer born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and based in Berlin. She’s the founder of the Georgian Animators Association and Ambassador of the Emile – European Animation Awards for Georgia. She has worked for film studio Kvali as director, animator, art director and producer since 1998, and she’s one of the organisers of Nikozi – International Animation Film Festival (Georgia) since 2011.