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Film Director and Producer
Country of origin

Giorgi Abashishvili (*1976 in Tbilisi/Georgia) spent his childhood in the Soviet Union. As a teenager, he experienced the upheaval there and studied during the civil war in Georgia. He completed his studies with a degree in engineering at the Technical University of Tbilisi. He then studied film and television directing at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. After graduating, he was appointed a master student there. In Georgia and Germany, he made films such as THE COW, A SMALL ROOM and ALL ABOUT PEOPLE. In 2012, he was voted one of the best young Georgian directors and produced another short film, COMEBACK, in Georgia. Giorgi Abashishvili has taught at the Georgian National Film Centre as well as at the University of Kassel.  He is a co-founder of the Hessen-based film production company LPP - Living Pictures Production (Kassel). He works in documentary and feature film.

Festivals

Current issues

At the Oulu's Children's and Youth International Film Festival 2024 the Church Media Foundation presented its "Look at Me..." Award to Nellie Rajala for her film "The Elf Ring".
Sascha Keilholz, director of the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, in his greetings at the Ecumenical Reception reflects the actual political challenges after the US elections and the threats to democracy.

Events

11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2
26.04.2023
Budapest
In Budapest at the end of April 2023 INTERFILM is organising a seminar on the history of Hungarian film and the current situation in Central and Eastern Europe.

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