Otar Iosseliani

Georgian director, born in 1934 in Tbilisi. In 1952 attended composition, conducting and piano at the State Conservatory. In 1961 he attended VGIK at Dovzhenko & Chiaureli’s class. After his film April was banned, he works two years as a sailor and metallurg. Falling Leaves won FIPRESCI Award at Cannes Festival. After the success at Berlin Festival in 1982 of Pastorale, shot 6 years earlier, Iosseliani settled in France. He received the Special Jury Prize from the festival in Venice three times, for his films Favorites of the Moon, And Then There Was Light and Brigands, chapter VII. Iosseliani was named Best director in Berlin for Monday Morning in 2002.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

1961 April (Април)
1968 Falling Leaves (Листопад)
1971 Lived Once a Song-Thrush (Жил певчий дрозд)
1976 Pastorale (Пастораль)
1984 Favorites Of the Moon (Les Favoris de la lune)
1989 And Then There Was Light (Et la lumiere fut)
1992 Chasing Butterflies (La Chasse aux papillons)
1996 Brigands-Chapter VII (Brigands, Chapitre VII)
1999 Farewell, Home Sweet Home (Adieu, plancher des vaches!)
2002 Monday Morning (Lundi matin)
2006 Gardens in Autumn (Jardins en automne)
2010 Chantrapas