The 9th edition of the London Georgian Film Festival opens with one of the most innovative and visually exciting films from the whole of Georgian cinema: My Grandmother (Chemi bebia, 1929), is inspired Georgian avant-garde and a deep satire on bureaucracy. Banned for 50 years, it is staggeringly original and must be seen.
The festival will celebrate the work of internationally award-winning director Levan Akin, screening both his feature films And Then We Danced (Da chven vitsek’vet, 2019) and Crossing (2024).
The festival welcomes two young Georgian filmmakers with films premiered in international film festivals. Tiku Kobiashvili’s Inner Blooming Springs (Shinagani gazapkhulebis q’vaviloba, 2025) premiered at Berlin, and Anka Gujabidze’s Temo Re (2025), won a prestigious Tiger Short Award and the KNF (Circle of Dutch Film Journalists) Award earlier this year at Rotterdam.
Don’t miss the London premiere of Elena Mikaberidze’s documentary Blueberry Dreams, and the UK premiere of Tato Kotetishvili’s Holy Electricity, winner of the Golden Leopard Best Film at Locarno Film Festival 2024 and a special programme of shorts from emerging voices of Georgian cinema.
Meet leading directors, including Dito Tsintsadze, with his black comedy from 2000, Lost Killers, and the first film of Rouben Mamoulian, born in Tbilisi in October 1897, the early talkie Applause (1929).
For the 4th consecutive year, Life Through Cinema is delighted to be presenting the London Georgian Film Festival with Ciné Lumière. This is the 20th year since the inaugural festival in 2005 founded by the British Georgian Society.
2 – 5 Oct
