Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences has ennounced nominants of Nika Awards in 2007.

Aleko Tsabadze's film "Russian Triangle" ("Rusuli samkutxedi") won Nika for Best Film of CIS and Baltic Countries.

March 2 after a long-term illnLaunch Internet Explorer Browseress the famous Georgian actress of theatre and cinema,  the People's Artist of Georgia and People's Artist of Armenia, Sofiko Chiaureli has died in the age of 71.

January 26 filmmakers and festivalgoers crowded into the Park City Racquet Club to celebrate the close of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and to learn which films Festival juries and audiences had chosen for awards.

This marks the fourth year of the Festival’s World Cinema Competition. This year, for the first time, films screening in the World Cinema Competition were eligible for the same awards presented to the U.S. films in Competition.

World Cinema Directing Award - Documentary was given to Georgian director Nino Kirtadze, Durakovo: Village of Fools
Temur Butikashvili's short film Second Hand Sale ("Chamopasebulebi") will participate in The Berlinale Shorts section. Second Hand Sale will be screened on the following dates:
8 Feb 08, 14:00
9 Feb 08, 18:30
Then will be 2 repetitions:
14 Feb 08, 22:00
16 Feb 08, 18:30
8 January, 2008 has died well-known and loved Georgian actor Guram Lortqipanidze - "An Unusual Exhibition"(Arachveulebrivi gamopena), "Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story" (Tsisperi mtebi), "Racha, My Love" (Racha, chemi sikvaruli), "First Swallow " (Pirveli mertskhali), "Cinema".

3-9 of December 2007  the 8th Tbilisi International Film Festival was held.  Festival has never hosted so many guests and there have never been so many fi lms in the festival program. Tbilisi 8th International Film Festival offered to cine amateurs and fi lm professionals diverse program, several shows of new production, special shows, exhibitions, master classes conducted by famous professionals, meetings and other interesting events.  The most distinguished guest of the Festival was prominent American director Bob Rafelson.
The Competition program represented 11 full-length feature films.

International jury headed by a German director Ulriche Otingher awards      with Golden Prometheus Tricks  directed by Andrzej Jakimowski (Poland).

 Jury awards with Silver Prometheus Aleksei Popogrebski for the film Simple Things (Russia).

Parajanov award goes to Tricks  directed by Andrzej Jakimowski (Poland). 

FIPRESCI award goes to My Father My Lord directed by David Volach (Israel).
29th  Montpellier  International Film Festival was closed on November 4. A film by Georgian director Vano Burduli  Graffiti  was awarded Grand Prix and Canal + Award in the contest of short-length features with participation of 22 films. Along with Grand Prix the director received monetary award established by the town of Montpelier and its region – € 4000 .
On the 29th Moscow International Film Festival Special Jury prize was awarded to "Russian Triangle" (dir. Aleko Tasabadze)

The 29th Moscow International Film Festival is opened! June 21, the Day 1 of MIFF, presented gala premieres and the magnificent opening ceremony. The 29th MIFF Opening Ceremony celebrated the 50th anniversary of  Mikhail Kolotozov’s (Mikheil  Kalatozishvili) legendary Cranes Are Flying.The Lifetime Cinematography Achievements Awards went to People’s Artists Tatiana Samoilova and Alexei Batalov for their parts in Cranes are Flying, Emir Kusturica handed the prize.

The Georgian cinema at festival is presented by film " Russian triangle" ("Rusuli samkutxedi") directed by Aleko Tsabadze.

 One more Georgian, Dito Tsintsadze, takes part  in the MIFF as the member of the main competition  jury


Films by two Georgian filmmakers: Otar Ioseliani’s “Autumn Gardens” and Dito Tsintsadze’s “A Man from the Embassy”  participated in the competition of the Mar del Plata 22nd International film festival in  Argentina. The film by Otar Ioseliani won special prize of jury, while Dito Tsintsadze’s film was awarded a prize for the best screenplay (Zaza Rusadze, Dito Tsintsadze) and a special prize of Argentinean film critics association.

         4-9  of October 2005 the 6th Tbilisi International Film Festival was held. About 80 feature films, documentaries and animations were represented within the frames of the Film Festival.
        The Competition program represented 12 full-length feature films.
The main Prize “Golden Prometheus” was awarded to the film “Turtles Can Fly” by Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi.
       “Silver Prometheus” - the Prize for the Best Director was granted to the Georgian director Gela Babluani for the film “Tzameti”.
        Noteworthy that films taking part in the competition were evaluated by the FIPRESCI Jury - The International Federation of Film Critics too, for the first time in the history of the Tbilisi Film Festival.
       The FIPRESCI Prize was awarded to the Georgian film “A Trip to Kharabakh” by the director Levan Tutberidze.
      The Parajanov Prize was awarded to the film “The Sleeping Child” by the director Jasmine Kassari, from Morocco.

16-23 of May 2005 the International Youth Short Film Festival “Sesily” was held in Tbilisi. The festival was organizated by The Art Union “Sesily”. The Festival was held under the patronage Ministry of Culture, Monument Protection and Sports and with financial support of the Georgian Film Center.

The students from different countries were participated in the festival: Georgia, Azerbaijan, France, German, Kazakhstan, poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine.

The Jury of the Festival: Gerben Schermer, Festival Director for the Holland Animation Film festival; Dato Janelidze, Film director; Giorgi Beridze, Director of Photography; Giorgi Kalatozishvili, Film critic; Marina Saluqvadze, Film critic.

Awards:

Diploma for Best Women Actor - Julia Luminare (“Positive Life”, Romania);
Diploma for Best Actor - Davit Roinishvili (“37 º ”, Georgia);
Diploma for Best Design - (“My Gogol”, Ukraine);
Diploma for Best Sound - Igor Strembitskjy, Victoria Kuleshova (“Wayfarers”, Ukraine);
Diploma for Best Photography - Piotr Niemujski (“The End of a Fairy Tale”, Poland);
Diploma for Best Script - Silvia Diaz, Jorge Muramz, Alfonso Bagquero (“Effect and Cause”, Spain);
Diploma for Original Idea - Guram Navrozashvili, Bacho Makharadze (“The Rope”, Georgia)
and
Mari Sagareishvili (“Gorko”, Georgia);
Diploma for Best Direction - Igor Strembitskjy (“Wayfarers”, Ukraine);
Diploma for Best Editing - Alexandru Stanescu (“The Price of Innocence”, Romania);
Special Prize of Jury - Studio “Garikula”;

Main Prize “Sesily”:

For Best Experimental fillm - “Garikula” (dir. by Nato Shushania, Georgia);
For Best Feature film - “You are there” (dir. by Anna Kazejak, Poland);
For Best Documentary - “Wayfarers” (dir. by Igor Strembitskjy, ukraine);
For Best Animation - “Wait, Please” (dir. by Elizaveta Scvorcova, Russia).

On February, 10th in the House of Cinema the premiere of new Georgian film and first Georgian mystical thriller "Day of fighters " was held. The creative collective of film mostly consists of youth. According to the director, almost all worked on enthusiasm, with hope for the future commercial success. We shall look, hopes of authors of film will be justified or not.
At recently ended festival in Berlin the International Short Film Jury has awarded prize the New York Film Academy Scholarship to film Zgvis Donidan - Eye Level by Giorgi Ovashvili (screened in the Panorama section). The jury recognized the deft and assured handling of a story that captures the vitality and playfulness of youth and desire without a single word passing between its two young protagonists.
July, 4 at cinema "Amirani" the premiere of new film of Nile Jordan " the Good thief " was held. On a premiere there was a director of film and featured actor Nik Nolt. They have arrived to Tbilisi under personal invitation of Nutsa Kukhianidze, a young Georgian film actor, the performer of a role Anna in this film.
     During New Year days on the First Channel of Georgia TV was the premiere of the new Georgian film. G. Mgeladze’s video film “Gachedilebi”(Jammed) tries to tell about nowadays of Georgian cinema and filmmakers. The main parts in this film execute: O. Megvinetukhutsesi, G. Gabunia, G. Sikharulidze, E. Magalashvili. By the small financing the film was in the making process during some years and only allocated finances of the Cinema-Center finished it. 
     In 22 January in “Amirani” cinema was the premiere of the new Georgian film “Rogorts Lurdja Tskhenebi” (“As Blue Horses” – title of Galaktion Tabidze’s famous poem). The filmmakers try to represent a model of our society and for this they choose a hospital full with sewage. This film was also finished with the help of the finance allocated with the Cinema-Center.
      In 30 January in the Cinema House, in the apartment of the vice-Secretary of Cinematographers’ Union A. Shubashvili was the meeting of the representatives of movie-critics. The reason of meeting was the premiere of the new Georgian film “Lurdja Tskhenebi”(Blue Horses) last week in “Amirani” cinema. This is one of the films, which was a load for Georgian cinema production during years and at last was finished with the help of the Cinema-Center. Very soon after this film, help will be given to the others and movie-critics decided that they had no right to keep silence.
To tell the truth, the movie-critics wasn’t silent before, but in the condition of non-existence of the professional movie-critical press, when Georgian Mass Media in its majority refuses to give the space to serious critics, the movie-critics’ estimations circled only before small professional group. But in the conditions of deterioration of the level of Georgian cinema, the movie-critics decided that it would be impossible to continue in such way.
The nearest plan of action looks thus: from February the show of last five years films will take place in the Cinema House. After will be the broad public discussion of them in the presence of the movie-critics, authors, cinematographers, Mass Media, concerned society.
With the help of Cinematographers’ Union the movie-critics will establish special Prize and “Anti-Prize”, which will be given to the best and worst films of the year. The movie-critics will hope that this Prize will be traditional and they with its help will express their attitude to the current process in Georgian cinematography.