Otar Iosseliani
Head of jury KIFF 2010
Film director
(Georgia-France)
Otar Iosseliani was born in Tbilisi (Georgia), where he studied at the State Conservatory and graduated in 1952. In 1953 he went to Moscow to study at the faculty of mathematics, but in two years he entered the State Film Institute (VGIK). In 1958 he directed his first short film . Iosseliani's first full-length motion picture, GIORGOBISTVE, won a FIPRESCI-prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Despite of the international recognition maestro’s films were not allowed in the Soviet Union. His film PASTORALI was not released, but disappeared for several years in the Soviet archives. After the success of PASTORALI at the Berlin Film Festival in 1982 he emigrated from the Soviet Union to France. There were filmed such his masterpieces as LES FAVORIS DE LA LUNE, UN PETIT MONASTERE EN TOSCANE, LA CHASSE AUX PAPILLONS and LUNDI MATI. Nowadays Otar Ioseliani lives and works in France.
- 2010 Chantrapas
- 2006 Jardins en automne
- 2002 Lundi matin
- 1999 Adieu, plancher des vaches!
- 1996 Brigands, chapitre VII
- 1994 Seule, Georgie
- 1992 La chasse aux papillons
- 1989 Et la lumiere fut
- 1988 Un petit monastere en Toscane
- 1984 Les favoris de la lune
- 1983 Sept pieces pour cinema noir et blanc
- 1983 Euzkadi ete 1982
- 1974 Pastorali
- 1970 Iko shashvi mgalobeli
- 1969 Dzveli qartuli simgera
- 1966 Giorgobistve
- 1964 Tudzhi
- 1961 Aprili
- 1959 Sapovnela
- 1958 Akvarel
