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Georgian Film ‘Blackbird’ Set to Fly at Osaka Asian Festival – Global Bulletin


The Osaka Asian Film Festival adds Georgia's 'Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry,' AVIA reshuffles its board, and Mohsen Makhmalbaf heads to Vesoul.

Elene Naveriani ’s “Blackbird,” about a middle-aged woman’s relationship decision, has had wide festival play in Europe (Gijon, Cottbus, Sarajevo, New Horizons) and earned multiple prizes for lead actor Eka Chavleishvili. Other revival inclusions are: the 4K restored director’s cut of Patrick Tam ’s 1982 Hong Kong movie “Nomad” and “240 Hours in One Day,” a 30-minute piece by Teshigahara Hiroshi from 1970.The festival expects to complete its lineup with announcements of the opening and closing films on Feb. 2. In the narrative feature section, the competition titles include “All Ears,” by China’s Liu Jiayin; “The Snow Leopard, by the late Pema Tseden; “Work to Do,” by Korea’s Park Hong-jun; “The Spark,” by Rajesh S. Jala from India; “Maria,” by Iran’s Mahdi Asghari Azghadi; “Scream,” by Kazakhstan’s Kenzhebek Shaikakov; “Sunday,” by Shokir Kholikov from Uzbekistan; “Paradise,” from Sri Lanka, directed by Prasanna Vithanage; and “Solids by the Seashore,” by Thailand’s Patiparn Boontarig.

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