British Comedy Filmed in Georgia Up for UK National Film Award

TBILISI – A British comedy that was filmed in Georgia has been nominated for the UK’s 2016 National Film Awards.

‘Lost in Karastan’ is a collaboration between British film maker Ben Hopkins and award-winning Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, as well as a co-production between Georgia, the UK, Germany and Russia.

The storyline is a black comedy about a washed-up Oscar winning British film director, named Emil Forester, who is invited to make a national epic in an obscure fictional Caucasus republic known as Karastan.

It’s well made and founded on a funky kind of social-realist plausibility and the locations (in Tbilisi, Georgia) are rather amazing, Film critic, Peter Bradshaw, of the Guardian called the film a funky, social-realist lark with stunning locations and a good cast.

The 2016 National Film Awards is organized by the London Film Academy and takes place on the 31 March.

By Tamar Svanidze

Edited by Nicholas Waller