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• Cinema Amirani the closing ceremony of the 18th Tbilisi International Film Festival was held

  Today, at the Cinema Amirani the closing ceremony of the 18th Tbilisi International Film Festival was held.

  British director and producer Uberto Pasolini was the head of the International Jury, while other jury members were Film Critic and a program coordinator at Seattle International Film Festival Maryna Ajaja (USA), Director and producer Srdjan Dragojevic (Serbia), Actor Stephane Rideau (France) and Literature Critic and Actor Lasha Bakradze (Georgia).

  International Competition winners are:

  Golden Prometheus for the Best Picture - "Ravens" by Jens Assur (Sweden 2017).

  Silver Prometheus for the Best Directing - "The Charmer" by Milad Alami (Denmark/Sweden/France 2017).

  International competition jury gave special mention to the following films:

  "Scary Mother" by Ana Urushadze (Georgia, Estonia, 2017)
  "Scaffolding" by Matan Yair (Israel 2017).

   

  The National Competition - Georgian Panorama is the traditional section uniting this year's most significant Georgian films. The aim of the program is to support and promote Georgian films among the wide audience. For the second time, this year Prometheus was awarded in 3 nominations: The Best Full Feature Film, The Best Short Film and The Best Documentary Film. As for the jury, together with German film critics Erika and Ulrich Gregor, Georgian films were evaluated by British film critic and journalist Carmen Gray.

  Best Georgian Fiction Film - "Scary Mother" by Ana Urushadze (Georgia, Estonia, 2017)
  Best Georgian Documentary Film - "City Of Sun" by Rati Oneli (Georgia/Netherlands/Qatar/United States of America, 2017)
  Best Georgian Short Film - "Ana" by Margo Zubashvili (Georgia, 2017)
  Jury Special Mention - "Fishing" by Tornike Bziava (Georgia/France, 2017).

   

  Besides the international and national competition, "The European Union for Georgia" dedicated a special prize to the film with a focus on Human Rights in the frames of Tbilisi International Film Festival. The film was selected from the ten films included in the International Competition. The winner of "The European Union for Georgia" is - "The Charmer" by Milad Alami.

  The winner of the Short Film Pitching Workshop organized in frames of Tbilisi IFF Industry Days is Lord of Oneself - Director: Elene Mikaberidze, Producer: Nushi Film/Takes Film.

  The winner of full-length film Pitching workshop is Spineless - Director: Grigol Abashidze, Producer: Studio Artizm/Lasha Khalvashi. Writer: Gigisha Abashisze, Alex Chigvinadze.

  The 18th International Film Festival Closing film was "Namme" by Georgian director Zaza Khalvashi.

• Turkish ambassador to Georgia: EU membership continuous to be a strategic object for Turkey

  Turkish ambassador to Georgia Zeki Levent Gümrükçü gave an exclusive interview to Starvision, The ambassador explains why this was such a bitterly-contested process and what are turkey’s plans for future in terms of moving towards the EU. “It is Turkey who is constantly choking on the doors of the EU, who is constantly asking to be able to move ahead in the membership process. We are not turning our face away from the EU. We have been given this candidate status in 2004 but since then only 4 or 6 chapters have been opened, because the EU for some political reasons is unfortunately preventing any negotiating chapters for our accession process to continue. We are trying to move ahead in the EU membership process, because we believe that to the common benefit, in the interest of both countries” – the Turkish ambassador told Starvision TV.
  
  

• Pentagon and FoggyBottom know how important Georgian Army is-Ian Kelly

  The exclusive interview of Ian Kelly the US Ambassador to Georgia in the special project of Starvision “Border Zone”/ ‘Пограничная ZONA’: «Pentagon and FoggyBottom know how important Georgian Army is.
  It is small but strong and it has an important role in the protection of the interests of the world».
  Watch at Starvision and listen to Radio Star FM the full version of the interview today, at 21:30 p.m. “Border Zone”/ ‘Пограничная ZONA’

• We want to help Georgian Government to create independent court-Ian Kelly

  The exclusive interview of Ian Kelly the US Ambassador to Georgia in the special project of Starvision “Border Zone”/ ‘Пограничная ZONA’: «We want to help Georgian Government to create independent court. There is a past traces in the judicial system mentality».
  Watch at Starvision and listen to Radio Star FM the full version of the interview today, at 21:30 p.m. “Border Zone”/ ‘Пограничная ZONA’

• Existence of democratic society is important for safety - Ian Kelly

  The exclusive interview of Ian Kelly the US Ambassador to Georgia in the special project of Starvision “Border Zone”/ ‘Пограничная ZONA’: « Existence of democratic society is important for the safety because democratic societies don’t fight each other. We are concerned about the trends in the region, the former Soviet Union».
  Watch at Starvision and listen to Radio Star FM the full version of the interview today, at 21:30 p.m. “Border Zone”/ ‘Пограничная ZONA’