Retrospektive Head of jury: NANA DJORDJADZE


After finishing the Music Academy, Nana Djordjadze studied architecture at the Art Academy in Tbilissi. Between 1974 and 1980 she studied direction at the Film- and Theatre-School in Tbilissi. She studied under Tengis Abuladse and Irakli Kwirikadse, with whom she is married. Her diploma film THE JOURNEY TO SOPOT won several awards. Since then she has been working as an actress, scriptwriter and director. The style of her film debut ROBINSONADA, OR MY ENGLISH GRANDFATHER takes up the tradition of the great Georgian cinema. In 1987, the film won the Camera d'Or in Cannes. Her film A CHEF IN LOVE received an Oscar nomination in 1997.
Between 1985 and 1990, Nana Djordjadze taught at the Georgian Film School and between 1991 and 1995, she worked as a professor for direction at the VGIK in Moscow. She has published the art book "The Forgotten Roofs of my Childhood" and a collection of poems, "The lonely Don Quixotes". She lives and works in Tbilissi, Berlin and Paris and has been a member of the jury at several international film festivals, e.g. in Cannes (1992), Venice (1997) and Berlin (1998). At goEast's premiere in 2001 her film 27 MISSING KISSES was shown, which in the meantime has won several awards. Among her new projects are THE TEARS OF DON JUAN and THE WEATHER IDIOT.




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