George Ovashvili is a Georgian director, writer and
producer. He is a graduate from the film department of the
Georgian State Institute of Cinema and Theatre (1996) and
the course of filmmaking of The New York Film Academy
of
Universal Studio in Hollywood (2006). He made his debut
with two short films Wagonnet (1997) and Eye
Level (2005). His first feature film, The Other
Bank (2009) premiered in Generation at the Berlin
International Film Festival 2009 and won over 50
international prizes. His second feature Corn
Island (2014) won the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary
International Film Festival 2014 and was shortlisted for the
Academy Awards’s best foreign language film in 2015.
Khibula (2017) ended the trilogy of long features,
dedicated to the recent history of director’s home country.
Film premiered in the main competition of Karlovy Vary
International Film Festival 2017.
The director disagreed to previous works being used Online Screening.