Cinema of Georgia

Cinema of Georgia
Rustaveli Cinema, Tbilisi
No. of screens	24 (2011)
• Per capita	0.6 per 100,000 (2011)
Main distributors	Fox (London) 25.0% Buesta Vista Song Pictures 19.0% Warner Bros 13.0%
Produced feature films (2011)
Fictional	12 (85.7%)
Animated	-
Documentary	2 (14.3%)
Number of admissions (2010)
Total	144,039
National films	66,200 (46.0%)
Gross box office (2010)
Total	GEL 1.25 million
National films	GEL 626,000 (50.1%)

The cinema of Georgia has been noted for its cinematography in Europe. One of the most acclaimed Italian film directors, Federico Fellini, was an admirer of the Georgian film:

Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.

List of Georgian film studios

• Georgian Animation Studios
• Georgian Film Joint-Stock Company
• Kartuli Pilmi (Gruziya-film)
• Studio Caucasian FILMODROM
• Studio CGC (Caucasus Global Cinema)
• Studio Films House

Notable films

See also: List of Georgian films

In Bloom

• 1992
  • The Sun of the Sleepless
• 1994
  • Iavnana
• 1996
  • A Chef in Love
• 1999
  • Here Comes the Dawn
• 2000
  • 27 Missing Kisses
• 2001
  • The Migration of the Angel
• 2005
  • 13 Tzameti
  • Tbilisi, Tbilisi
  • A trip to Karabakh
• 2007
  • The Russian Triangle
• 2008
  • Mediator
• 2009
  • The Other Bank
• 2010
  • Born in Georgia
  • Chantrapas
  • Keep Smiling
  • Salt White
  • Street Days
  • The Watchmaker
• 2013
  • Blind Dates
  • In Bloom
• 2014
  • Corn Island
• 2015
  • Moira

Notable filmmakers

Georgian cinematography’s reputation has been built by known cinema directors and choreographers such as:

• Dodo Abashidze
• Tengiz Abuladze
• Temur Babluani
• Mikheil Chiaureli
• Revaz Chkheidze
• Rusudan Chkonia
• Goderdzi Chokheli
• Nana Ekvtimishvili
• Lana Gogoberidze
• Otar Ioseliani
• Dito Tsintsadze
• Nana Jorjadze
• Mikheil Kobakhidze
• Sergei Parajanov
• Eldar Shengelaia
• Giorgi Shengelaia
• Nikoloz Shengelaia
• Beso Turazashvili

From 2012, the main focus of Georgian cinema is supporting script writing and European co-productions.

See also

• Cinema of the world
• List of Georgian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Bibliography

• Lauren Ninoshvili, Ph.D.: Singing between the Words: The Poetics of Georgian Polyphony', New York: Columbia University, 2011, ISBN 978-1-124-33459-2

External links

• Georgian National Film Center