A press conference was held at the
International Documentary Film Festival - CinéDOC-Tbilisi at the Ministry of
Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia.
The event was led by the festival
organizers and the supporting organizations and stakeholders.
From 8 to 13 May Tbilisi will welcome
the 7h edition of the CinéDOC-Tbilisi – international documentary film
festival!! This year Cinema Amirani and the Cinema of the National Archives of
Georgia /Archive Cinema will host the festival screenings.
On May 8, at 20:00 o’clock, we will
open the festival with “Honeyland”, a film that has won three awards at this
year’s Sundance Film Festival, including the prestigious World Cinema
Documentary Grand Jury Prize.
Connecting Thoughts – our motto for
this year enables us to get closer to the audience by presenting the selected
films according to different topics: Filmmaker in Focus (Nicolas Philibert),
Unconditional Love, Beyond Faith, Red Soul, Our Planet and Us, A Place We Call
Home, Family Portraits, Aftermath of Conflict, Eternally Young, Changing
cities, All That Matters To Me and Adaptation.
This year Hungary will be presented as
“Guest Country”, with a delegation from Hungary visiting Tbilisi and presenting
five creative documentaries from this country. For the first time this year a
“New Talents Caucasus” presentation will take place and the “Civil Pitch” will
connect again non-governmental organizations and documentary filmmakers.
A premiere of famed director Dziga
Vertov’s newly discovered century-old film, a Sundance-winning work from North
Macedonia and focus on filmmakers from Hungary will make this year’s
CineDOC-Tbilisi International Documentary Film Festival a major cinema
celebration in the capital starting next week.
As per usual, there is a specific
section dedicated to films for and about children – CinéDOC-Young. Last but not
least, the Erotic DOX section makes its appearance in the program again, this
time with a slight focus on the female erotic experience… The festival will
screen more than 50 documentaries from Georgia and from all over the world. The
film screenings are followed by Q&A sessions with the invited filmmakers
and master classes with renowned film professionals.
CinéDOC-Tbilisi 2019 will welcome many
international guests including such guests as: French filmmaker Nicolas
Philibert, Russian filmmaker Vitaly Mansky, the cinematographers of “Honeyland”
Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma, the protagonists of the films “Disappearance of My
Mother” and “The Principal Wife”, Nikolai Izvolov who discovered Dziga Vertov's
missing masterpiece.
Festival Partners: Ministry of
Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia, Georgian National Film
Center, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Tbilisi City Hall, Open
Society Georgia Foundation, Doc Lounge Sweden, French Institute of Georgia,
Hungarian Embassy in Tbilisi, Multimedia Education Center, Caucasian House,
"Wine Garden" Maranashvili, Ibis Hotel, WizzAir, Georgian National
Archive, Georgian Public Broadcaster.
CinéDOC-Tbilisi is the first
international documentary film festival in the South Caucasus aimed at
promoting creative documentary films since 2013.
Purchase tickets at the festival will
be available online (www.biletebi.ge)