Nana Ekvtimishvili

Nana Ekvtimishvili Georgian ნანა ექვთიმიშვილი born 9 July 1978 in Tbilisi Georgia is a Georgian writer and director She studied philosophy at the Ivane Javakhishvili State University of Tbilisi She studied screenwriting and dramaturgy at the Academy of Film and Television HFF in PotsdamBabelsberg Her stories were first published in 1999 in the Georgian literary magazine Arili in Georgia After writing prose and screenplays in 2011 she directed the short film Deda Waiting for Mum In 2012 with Simon Groß she completed her first feature film Grdzeli Nateli Dgheebi Georgian გრძელი ნათელი დღეები international title In Bloom In Bloom premiered at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival in 2013 and won the award of the International Confederation of Art Cinema the CICAE Award It also won numerous awards at other international film festivals including in Hong Kong Tokyo Paris Los Angeles and Sarajevo and is an Oscar entry for 2014 for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film from Georgia In 2013 Ekvtimishvili with Simon Gross was chosen among the ten most promising European directors from Varietyʼs Ten Directors to Watch at the 48th Karlovy Vary Film Festival At the Berlin International Film Festival in 2013 In Bloom was referred to as the birth of the new Georgian wave In Hong Kong the film was named as the spring of Georgian cinema The International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI has called the film a sign of the rebirth of Georgian film In 2015 Ekvtimishvilis first novel The Pear Field was published by Bakur Sulakauri Publishing in Georgia In 2018 The Pear Field was published in a German translation by Suhrkamp Publishing Germany as Das Birnenfeld In 2020 The Pear Field was published in English translation by Peirene UK