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Berdo Kutubidze

(Algérie)

The film describes the most important moments of Ilia and Pablo Picasso's friendship, their joint publications and the history of Picasso's painting behind the portrait of Pirosmani...
One part of Zdanevich's historical archive is in Tbilisi, a large part is in the National Library of France, as well as in the center of Pompidou, and a small part is near Marseille, where the material is kept that is invaluable to Georgia and the world culture. It turned out that Iliazd was a great archivist along with everything: he wrote everything, could explain and formulate everything. The materials used in the film are from this archive: Unpublished personal correspondence, photos, publications, works...
The shooting of the film started in 2019 and moved to the active phase in 2023. During this period, research was carried out in the National Archives of Georgia, the National Museum, the National Library of the Parliament of Georgia, the archives of the Georgia’s Public Broadcaster, the Literary Museum, and the Ilyazd-club archive. Material from private collections is used. Filming was taking place in Batumi, Tbilisi, Garikula, Brussels (Europalia), Trigance, Saint-Syr-Sur-Mer, Paris, Leuville, Venice (Biennale).

ETERNALS: EVERYTHINGISM

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Alberto Pereira

(Portugal)

Shalva Shengeli studied film directing at Georgian Theatre and Cinema State University in the class of Rezo Esadze. He has been working as a director for various Georgian TV channels. He is the director and author of several documentaries and fiction films. His film and series are winners of different festivals in Georgia and out of the country.
A SERRA DE AGOSTINHO
(Agostinho's Moutain )
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Djamal BACHA

(Algérie)

Rural women play a central role in the revival of ancient and modern societies.
Sometimes, customs and traditional institutions (TOUIZA, family solidarity) are highlighted.
Traditional harvesting methods are an inherited heritage, among many customs and traditions.
The persistence of women in mountainous regions in preserving these traditions expresses strength of character and shows their attachment to their land.

IẒURAN (THE ROOTS)

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Manuela Morgaine

(France)

Kintsugi - gold joint - is a Japanese method of repairing broken porcelain or ceramics with lacquer sprinkled with gold powder. Spiritually, Kintsugi chooses to show the breakage and repair of the object as part of its history, rather than hiding it. It symbolizes the resilience and beauty of life's scars, the transformation of fault lines into lines of strength. Shot in the primeval forest of Costa Rica, this is a film about untouched nature, untouched by pollution and the wounds inflicted by man.

KINTSUGI

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Tiago Cerveira

(Portugal)

An ancient gesture still resonates throughout the mountains of Portugal's interior: the clash of mallet and hammer.
A journey through the curves, workshops, and forges, capturing the rhythms of artisanal work in wood, iron, tin, and stone. From these raw sounds, an original musical composition was born. A sensorial journey where craft transforms into sound art, connecting tradition and contemporary creation.

MALLETS AND HAMMERS

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Manuel de Coco

(Greece)

Filmed over a seventeen-year period in Tibet, Mongolia, Russia, Israel, Palestine, Greece, Italy and Vatican City, "Invisible World" transports us to the disparate worlds of sacred grounds, war zones and natural wonders. A journey of exploration seeking a place, which finally might be held inside ourselves.

Invisible World

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Aristarchos Papadaniel

(Greece)

A poetic documentary based on Mikis Theodorakis’s & Iakovos Kambanellis’s Mauthausen Cantata new interpretation by Aristarchos Papadaniel (voice) & Aris Zervas (cello) and the original unpublished text for a film "Travelogue to Mauthausen-May 1988" by the concentration camp survivor and founder of the modern Greek post-war theatre Iakovos Kambanellis. The new MAUTHAUSEN recordings were the last official releases published with the permission of the world-renowned Greek composer and political activist Mikis Theodorakis (ZORBA, Z, Serpico) just one month before his passing. Kambanellis’s unpublished text, was written during his visit and concert in Mauthausen Liberation and Commemoration Ceremony ‘88, coming now to life on Mauthausen Liberation & Commemoration Day 2022 in its natural place -Mauthausen Memorial, Austria- for the first time.
The film MAUTHAUSEN is the most personal film script of the creator & camp survivor Iakovos Kambanellis and an unfulfilled vision of his, which 35 years after its initial conception (1988) is now taking its final form, in the place where the martyrdom was experienced and the original inspiration came from.
Through this audio-visual modular narrative storytelling project containing 4 songs in short music films and a poetic documentary with high transmedia storytelling value - in memory of "never again" - the story is presented in a refreshed and modern way taking advantage of combining arts such as narration, lyrical drama, performance art, choreography, photography, Holocaust survivor interview within a documentary form making the audiovisual production a special kind of film where art meets and tells history with timeless value.

MAUTHAUSEN

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Parashakti Sigalit Bat - Haim (Israel)

Dance of Liberation follows the visually stunning, inspirational journey of a lost, broken young woman who transforms into a powerful soul healer – and bravely tries to mend her deepest childhood wound along the way.
As a girl, Jerusalem-born Sigalit Bat Haim suffers severe learning disabilities, inherited from a father who abandoned the family to start a new life as an Ultra Orthodox Jew in Jerusalem. Grappling with a deep sense of isolation and rejection, young Sigalit discovers her sole source of soul expression: dance. As a dancer she is nimble, unruly, and utterly free.
Weaving together sumptuous dance sequences in wild natural settings, tender family archives, and stirring interviews with heartfelt, sage spiritual visionaries, Dance of Liberation explores Sigalit’s unfolding identity in the wilderness of the soul.
In adulthood, a series of devastating injuries draws Sigalit to the practice of yoga, where she begins uncovering her spiritual identity, taking refuge in an ashram and eventually receiving the name Parashakti – “goddess of life” – a reflection of her Hebrew given name, “daughter of life.”
Like father, like daughter, Parashakti finds herself driven to a life of spiritual seeking and healing. But very much unlike him, she weaves together a vibrant patchwork of traditions, finding a chosen elder in Native American traditions. Parashakti further clarifies her own voice as she develops a raucous, vibrant, medicinal ritual called Dance of Liberation, leading hundreds around the world in ecstatic ceremony and profound soul healing.
Surprise visits when Parashakti falls passionately in love with a Muslim seeker, only to discover that the cord to her Jewish past is pulling at her soul more ardently than she imagined.
Ultimately Parashakti comes to the realization that she must integrate Parashakti and Sigalit, and mend things with the one man who has hurt her the most, and who may understand her the best: her father. The two set out on a climactic and visually jaw-dropping pilgrimage to the desert, to visit the deepest parts of their souls and meet one another as whole individuals. The result is deeply moving, painful, and not at all easy. But it is a major step towards real healing.
Dance of Liberation is about the journey to integrate past and present, our highest selves with our most wounded selves, and our born selves with our true selves.
It is about the bravest journey of all: the journey to wholeness.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. – C.G. Jung

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