9th London Georgian Film Festival
9th London Georgian Film Festival 2 - 5 October 2025
Founded in 2005 by the British Georgian Society, the inaugural festival took place at the ICA. Since then Life Through Cinema has presented the festival at Riverside Studios (2010, 2013), Regent Street Cinema (2015, 2018), and for the last three years at Ciné Lumière. After the pandemic from 2022, the festival director Jason Osborn has curated a festival every year and this will be the 9th edition.
The full programme will be announced shortly but highlights include the 1929 dark comic satirical modernist silent masterpiece My Grandmother Chemi bebia with live musical accompaniment. The festival will focus on filmmaker Levan Akin with his international award winning films And Then We Danced 2019 and Crossing 2024. New films include Temo Re 2025, Anka Gujabidze's remarkable debut which was premiered at Rotterdam and Elena Mikaberidze's touching debut feature documentary Blueberry Dreams 2024.
The great Hollywood director Rouben Mamoulian was born in Tbilisi, and this year the festival will screen his first film Applause 1929, and Dito Tsintsadze's classic black comedy Lost Killers 2000, screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, will also be shown.
This year we want to hear from the emerging voices of Georgian cinema and there will be a special screening of shorts. Look out for more details and how to submit. Life Through Cinema is also planning a hands-on film workshop with a leading director for Georgian filmmakers, film students and film lovers living in London and the UK.