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.
Film Director and Producer
Country of origin
Georgia
Festivals
Current issues
Mit einem jungen neuen Team unter der Leitung von Joanna Szymańska-Szcześniak und dem Programmdirektor Bartłomiej Pulcyn startete das Warschauer Filmfestival bei seiner 41. Ausgabe in gleich acht verschiedenen Spielstätten., so Holger Twele, Miglied der Ökumenischen Jury in Warschau 2025, in seinem Bericht.
Land of A Thousand and One Nights and Persian poetry, Iran has turned cinema into the art of suggestion: when speech is monitored, the image becomes a poem and editing a figure of style.
Events
16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2