Tbilisi Student Film Festival Winners Announced

Press release.

Tbilisi Student Film Festival, organized with the support from Ministry of Culture, Monument Protection of Georgia and the National Film Center, took place on May 31, with the winners announced on June 4.

The award for Best Animation went to Strawberry Days by Eva Sekeresova / Slovakia, while Timor’s Show by Tamara Mamon / Israel won the Best Documentary. Business by Malena Vain, from Argentina, won the Best Fition and the Jury Prize went to THE WINDOW by Silvia Perra, Italy.

International jury members also awarded festival participants with diplomas. Etage X by Francy Fabritz from Germany received a diploma for directing. Karolina Specht from Poland received a diploma for her work in sound effects for Beside Oneself. MA Chuan from China, for camera work in Malice Justice, Inka Lahti, Finland for Editing: Luokkakokouksen jälkeen (after the reunion), and Tedo Dolidze, Georgia, for Donor (screenplay).

The Student Film Festival hosted thirty-eight films from nineteen film schools from around the world including the US, Germany, Argentina, Italy, China, France, Finland, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Brazil, United Kingdom, Israel, Romania, South Africa, Slovakia, Belgium and Georgia.

Members of the 2017 festival included Georgian actress Nino Kasradze, Ashwini Malik, Indian film director, and screenwriter, Eithan Ewan, film producer from Israel, Lithuanian producer Ramunas Pavilanskas; Iranian moviemaker, founder of Karname Institute of Art and Culture, Alireza Soltani.

This year, the honorary guest of the festival was Jerji Rudjinski, a Polish cinematographer, who has worked with Anrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Kieslowski. Masterclasses and workshops from the jury members were organized during the festival, alongside Vladimer Sulakvelidze’s exhibition “Chairs” and screening of Giorgi Ovashvili’s student/ diploma film Wagonette.