This year’s, sixth edition of Tbilisi International Student Film Festival in Georgia came to an end on 13th May. Grzegorz Jaroszuk’s graduation film scored the award for the best dramatic film.

On presenting the award to “Frozen stories” the jury acclaimed mainly wonderful images and deadpan humor, that become now a hallmark of Jaroszuk’s fiction films to name just an awarded “A story of a missing car”. The award in Georgia is the 9^th international award for the film, that in total had scored 20 Polish and international awards and distinctions.

“Frozen stories” is a grotesque tale about the young girl and boy who work at the same supermarket. As the worst employees of the supermarket they have been ordered to find a purpose of their lives and in just two days start a better, brand new life. All of the sudden a popular television show aims to help them to complete the task. The film is a perverse story, set at the background of the coolest supermarket’s corners, that shows the deep loneliness of two outsiders and their desperate struggles to escape from lives they used to live. The film was made as a graduated film in the Polish National Film School in Lodz in coproduction with EasyBusyProductions.

Another student fiction film produced in Łódź – “Normal people” by Piotr Złotorowicz was screened in Georgia, while Andrzej Bednarek representing Polish National Film School in Lodz was invited to Tbilisi as a jury member.

The first edition of „Amirani” festival was held in 1978. From its beginning it was considered as one of the most independent festivals among those organized in the former Soviet Union. After nearly seventeen years (between 1990 and 2007) when the festival was suspended from 2007 it is being held annually. Every year the most interesting students films are screened in Georgia.

More on the festival to be found at its official website

MAY 2012