The 8th edition of the London Georgian Film Festival takes place against a background of great uncertainty for independent Georgian filmmakers.
However, we are delighted to welcome to London, for the first time, one of Georgia’s leading directors, Nana Ekvtimishvili, the UK premiere of Lana Gogoberidze’s 2023 autobiographical film, Mother and Daughter or the Night is Never Complete, attended by the director now 93, and Otar Iosseliani’s 1996 Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize-winning Brigands – Chapter VII.
This year’s festival coincides with the 100th anniversary of Sergei Parajanov’s birth in Tbilisi in 1924. The life and career of one of the 20th centuries greatest filmmakers, who also spent time in prison due to his bisexuality and anti-Soviet messaging, is a timely reflection on Georgia in 2024, as it faces an important election at the end of October. The festival will screen Parajanov’s 1969 restored masterpiece Colour of Pomegranates.
2 – 6 Oct
