Due to the pandemic, the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival will be held in a hybrid format. The European Film Market will take place on February 10-17, and all the traditional sections of the festival, including the international competition, panorama, forum and retrospective films, will be screened in Berlin cinemas on February 10-20.

The National Film Center will present three Georgian full-length feature films at the European Film Market:

🔹 "Samurai at Rest-time" – directed by Levan Tutberidze (Georgia) February 13, 12:40, Virtual Cinema 3;

🔹 "Beautiful Helen" - directed by Giorgi Ovashvili (Georgia, France, Turkey) February 14, 15:00, Virtual Cinema 23;

🔹 "Lotto - Tale of a Town by the Sea" - directed by Zaza Khalvashi (Georgia, Lithuania) February 15, 12:40, Virtual Cinema 6.

In addition to film screenings, the Georgian virtual pavilion will host online meetings with sales agents, distributors and representatives from Cannes, Montpellier, Karlovy Vary, Cottbus and other international film festivals.

The online meetings, together with the representatives of the Film Center, will be attended by 10 Georgian producers, who were selected on the basis of a competition to participate in the Berlin Film Festival: Keti Kalandarishvili, Keti Danelia, Rati Oneli, Tiko Nadirashvili, Tekla Machavariani, Vladimer Kacharava, Elia Parsadanishvili, Elene Margvelashvili, Dato Isakadze, Giorgi Mukhadze.

This year, one of the sections of the Berlin Film Festival called "Books at the Berlinale", which was created to facilitate the future screening of various literary works, will present a new novel by the famous Georgian writer Nino Kharatishvili - "Lack of Light".