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​დოკას ინიციატივა თბილისის საერთაშორისო კინოფესტივალზე4-11 დეკემბერი, 2022

DOCA Initiative

@Tbilisi International Film Festival



Films

DOCA Initiative presents a program of 5 documentaries celebrating diverse forms of documentary filmmaking


Talks

Our highlights are a panel on South Caucasus documentary industry, talks with the State Defender, UA Ambassador, and presentation of DOCA 


Day to Day Program



Mariupolis 2 movie

DEC 5   16:00    / Amirani 3


MARIUPOLIS 2

dir: Mantas Kvedaravičius

Lithuania/France/Germany 2022 112’ 




+ talk with the Head of Ukrainian Diplomatic Mission Andryi Kasyanov and Lithuanian Ambassador Andrius Kalindra, moderated by Chevening alumni Davit Doborjginidze


On April 2, 2022, Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius was arrested and killed by the Russian occupying forces in Donbas. His body and the footage he shot were recovered later. Kvedaravičius provides the world with a colossal and sensitive view of Ukrainians as they live in tragedy and hope as bombs rain down on and around them.


 

fragments of paradise movie

DEC 6   19:00    / Amirani 3


FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE

dir: KD Davison

USA 2022 98’





Fragments Of Paradise assembles thousands of hours of Jonas Mekas’ personal footage, films, video diaries and letters to paint an intimate portrait of the life and career of the pioneering filmmaker, poet and critic who was born in Lithuania and moved to New York in the wake of World War II. The interviewees include Amy Taubin, Peter Bogdanovich, John Waters, Martin Scorsese, as well as Jonas’s children Sebastian and Oona Mekas. 


 

when the persimmons grew movie

DEC 8   16:00    / Amirani 3


WHEN THE PERSIMMONS GREW 

dir: Hilal Baydarov

Azerbaijan/Austria 2019 118’

+ Q&A with the filmmaker



Immobile in a home where the sands of time fall to the rhythm of rural Azerbaijani sounds, a mother waits for her son. When he arrives, their conversations circle around existential questions and news from afar, troubling and cryptic. Unrest cloaks the world outside. Mother and son grow closer, silence melts into words, and life springs between them.


 

documentary association georgia

DEC 9   14:00  / Goethe-Insitut Tbilisi


TALK:

WHERE ARE WE? WHO ARE WE? - DOCUMENTARY IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS




Speakers:

  • Melik Karapetyan – Producer (Armenia)

  • Sona Kocharyan – Filmmaker (Armenia)

  • Lala Aliyeva – Filmmaker, Producer (Azerbaijan)

  • Levan Lomjaria – Georgian National Film Center (Georgia)

  • Moderated by Nino Orjonikidze


 

bon voyage movie 2021

DEC 9  19:00  / Amirani 2


BON VOYAGE

dir: Garegin Papoyan

Armenia 2021 68’ 

+ Q&A with the filmmaker​




Fully equipped to accommodate civilian flights, recently rebuilt Stepanakert Airport in Karabakh does not operate due to the permanent threat of missile strikes. Stil, the airport remains “open”. Through wry observational scenes, Bon Voyage describes the absurd ironies of a not-so-ordinary community stuck in a political impasse, a kind of non-existence.


 

museum of revolution movie 2021

DEC 10   16:00  / Amirani 2


MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION

dir: Srđan Keča

Serbia/Croatia/Czech Republic 2021 91’ 

+ Talk with public defender Nino Lomjaria and lawyer Anano Tsintsabadze, moderated by Chevening alumni Ketevan Vashagashvili


A derelict building envisioned as the Museum of the Revolution now tells a very different story. In the damp, pitch-dark building live the outcasts of a society reshaped by capitalism. The film focuses on a girl who earns a little cash on the street by cleaning car windows with her mother. The girl has a close friendship with an old woman who also lives in the basement. Against the background of a transforming city, the three women find refuge in each other.




The programme is made possible through generous contribution of our partners:

Chevening Alumni Grant as part of the project Film Club Horizon Blue

US Embassy in Georgia

Embassy in Lithuania in Georgia

Tbilisi International Film Festival

Goethe-Insitut Georgia

CCA






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