In the National Archives of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, the Tbilisi International Film Festival opened today with the screening of the first Georgian documentary film - "Akaki Tsereteli's Journey to Racha-Lechkhumi" (1912).

About 80 documentary, feature, animated films and film chronicles from Georgia and 12 countries of the world will be shown in the cinema hall of the National Archive on October 6, 7 and 8. The films selected for the film festival were made by the Lumière brothers, the Skladanowski brothers, Jan Kříženecký, Vasil Amashukeli, Georges Méliès, Aurelio Paz dor Reyes, Jorja Palou, Octavian Miletić, Wim Wenders and others in the period 1895-1960.Georgian and foreign guests of the film festival were addressed by Deputy Minister of Justice Buba Lomuashvili, General Director of the National Archives Teona Iashvili and Director of the Central Audio-Visual Archives of the National Archives, Giorgi Kakabadze and spoke about the importance of establishing the festival.

The National Archive of Georgia is holding the Tbilisi International Archive Film Festival for the first time, and this year's theme of the film festival is the oldest film documents that have come down to us. Therefore, the participating countries - Germany, Italy, USA, Spain, Malta, Great Britain, Netherlands, Portugal, Czech Republic, Croatia, Moldova and France - film archives, film libraries and film museums present programs of ancient films preserved in their collections.

The program of the film festival can be found at the link: https://archive.gov.ge/ge/saarkivo-filmebis-festivali-1 . The National Archive of Georgia holds the film festival with the support of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia and the National Film Center of Georgia.

Attendance at film screenings is free. Address: Vazha-Pshavela Ave. 1/Pekini Ave. 40.