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IWP launched a Cinema Club

09:55 PM 20-12-2010

Institute of World Policy opens the world of the Georgian cinematography to Ukrainian viewers.Cinema Club opened with the worldwide well-known Georgian film “Pirosmani” (1969, directed by Giorgi Shengelaya). Film won several international prizes, in 1972 it won the Grand Prix at the Chicago Film Festival, in 1974 the first prize at the Azolo Film Festival.{7} ( frame from the movie)

In his opening speech Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to Ukraine Grigol Katamadze claimed that this film is a great opportunity to get to know Georgia better, to understand it”.{3}{1}

Presentation was visited by prominent Ukrainian journalists, experts, political analysts. Mykhailo Honchar, VolodymyrFesenko, Oleksandr Paliy, Evhen Bystrytskyy, Oleksandr Balanutsa were among the Georgian cinematography’s connoisseurs.

Cinema Club took place in the “CHAO” Restaurant in Kyiv.

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Photo by Natalia Sagalata