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The “Anti-Festival” Nikozi 2013 The 3rd Nikozi International Festival of Animated Films
This year the Nikozi International Festival of Animated Films was held for the third time. The opening film was Alla Churikova’s “Nikozi 2008”. Alla Churikova lives and works in Germany and also took part in this festival last year. This time she offered a film made in sand animation dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the Russian aggression in Georgia. The premiere of this film was followed by an exhibition of Tonino Guerra’s paintings, brought to the
Festival by his wife Lora Guerra and the President of the Tonino Guerra Association – Carlo Sanches. The exhibition was followed by the screening of an animated film “The Sower” (based on one of the fables of the Gospel). This film was jointly created by the pupils of Nikozi St. Alexandre Okropiridze School of Fine Arts. The involvement of children is one of the important parts of festival life. During the festival week children took active part in the various workshops. After training with foreign tutors, the children presented two plasticine anima-
tions - “Underwater” and “Trace”. This year’s Festival included film schools from five countries (Russia, Germany, Belarus, Poland and Bulgaria), including the famous Se-Ma-For animation studio and the Serafinski studio from Poland, the Animos studio from Russia, the Dresden Short Film festival from Germany and the Sofia festival from Bulgaria. There was a retrospective of Russian director Andrey Khrzhanovsky. The programs of the Dresden and Sofia festivals were especially interesting. The Directors of these Festivals - Katrin