Directors from 11 countries present their films at the BIAFF festival in Batumi
The 12th art-house film festival gathered cinematographers from Georgia, Russia, the USA, Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland, Iran, Hungary, Germany, and Turkey.
The Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF) will end on September 24.
The festival will award the best feature, documentary, and short films. The programme includes two contests: national and international, the "Sputnik Georgia" reports.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, an Iranian film director and screenwriter, headed the jury of the feature film contest. Documentary films will be estimated by a jury chaired by Georgian film director Alexander Rekhviashvili.
The feature film contest will estimate ten films, including the film "Jupiter's Moon" by Kornél Mundruczó starring Merab Ninidze, which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Batumi International Art-House Film Festival was founded in Georgia in 2006. It is focused on the recent art-house and independent films in Georgia and abroad, the "Georgia Online" reports.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.
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