Georgia
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B2B Doc Launch Pad Pitching sees 12 film projects pitched representing the Baltic and Black Sea region
On 4 June 2021, the Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network (B2B Doc) welcomed 25 filmmakers to Kyiv’s 50th Molodist International Film Festival for its B2B Doc Launch Pad Pitching Event. 12 projects representing #Belarus, #Ukraine, #Georgia, #Armenia, #Azerbaijan, and #Russia were pitched by their respective films teams made up of directors and producers (mostly)…
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B2B Doc hosts afternoon of documentary discussion at 50th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
Modern Times Review is currently in Kyiv for the 50th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival where The Baltic 2 Black Sea Documentary Network (B2B Doc) will hold their B2B Doc Launch Pad pitching event on Thursday, 3 June, 2021. Across its day long activities, 12 documentary film projects from #Belarus, #Ukraine, #Moldova, #Georgia, #Armenia, #Azerbaijan…
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Docu Rough Cut Boutique announces 5 selected 2021 projects
The 11th edition of Docu Rough Cut Boutique, the development platform of the Sarajevo Film Festival and Balkan Documentary Center, has announced the five projects for 2021. Each selected project will go through group and individual meetings with mentors prior to being presented at Sarajevo Film Festival’s the CineLink Industry Days in August. The projects,…
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The post-Soviet city where dancing is political
DISSENT: Since its May 2018 police raid, Bassiani, Tbilisi’s largest nightclub, has become a symbol of defiance in the face of social conservatism.
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Kicking against the pricks: two short documentaries from Melbourne
In the non-fiction selection of this year‘s film festival in Melbourne, the standouts included two economic miniatures, which take a bold, empathetic and vivid approach to LGBTI subjects.
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Prize winner: Blinded by the limelight
MEDIA The media's place in a changing society and an interesting cross-section of Georgian country life.
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A magical tour de force
With shy, pensive, and at times monosyllabic characters, director Tinatin Gurchiani paints a compassionate and somewhat melancholic portrait of Georgia’s eclectic new generation.
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Two approaches to war
From San Francisco International Film Festival: Andrei Nekrasov and Olga Konskaya captured the immediate aftermath of the bombing, shooting, and looting during the intense 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia. Two other filmmakers focus on the everyday life of a single US army platoon stationed in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan – showing just how…