KAVKASIIS SHOREULI KHEOBEBI - THE REMOTE VALLEY OF CAUCASUS

by Giorgi Mrevlishvili
33’, Georgia, 2011
Italian premiere
In the 1920s and ’30s, the American geologist and glaciologist William Osgood Field visited Georgia several times. There he collected more than 500 ethnographic photos, made three documentaries, and wrote numerous essays, in particular regarding the mountainous region of Svaneti. These documents were discovered after eighty years by a professor, Irakli Iakobashvili. Following in the footsteps of Field and his adventures in Georgia, we can reconstruct the history of that period, like a voyage through time.

Giorgi Mrevlishvili Born in Tbilisi in 1983, he earned a degree in human sciences and international journalism at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. After participating in numerous workshops about documentary film direction, he worked as a journalist and director for various television stations. In 2009, with the project for the film Anarekli, he participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Berlin Today Award.