Tbilisi International Film Festival to open on November 26. The festival guests will be able to watch the already internationally acclaimed “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry” by Georgian filmmaker Elene Naveriani, Nana Janelidze’s “Lisa, go on” and more than 10 short and full-length Georgian films.

Tbilisi International Film Festival was first established in 2000. The festival was born within a larger art festival framework entitled Gift, which carried numerous supporters and sponsors.

Consequently, the festival at that time was able to have an interesting and diverse program. Faced by the threat of closure in 2002, a circle of friends and co-thinkers (Gaga Chkheidze, Nino Anjaparidze, Lasha Bakradze, Davit Bukhrikidze, Besik Danelia, Guga Kotetishvili, Gaga Lomidze and Giorgi Kajrishvili) decided to set up the Cinema Art Center, Prometheus to maintain the festival alongside the coordination of other projects. In spite of scarce financial resources, the 2002 festival went on to be held by the Cinema Art Center, Prometheus.

The key aims of the festival are to introduce the Georgian public with new works of high artistic value - made in Georgia proper, and worldwide - and inform them of new trends in world cinema, in tandem with supporting the development of the Georgian cinema industry.