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Giorgi Mrevlishvili

Giorgi Mrevlishvili is a Georgian documentary filmmaker.


He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a Master's Degree in Social Sciences and a Bachelor's Degree in International Journalism from Tbilisi State University.


In 2010, Giorgi’s project Reflection was a finalist for the Berlin Today Award at the Berlinale Film Festival. The film was also selected for Vision Du Reel’s Focus: Georgia programme in 2015 and presented at the festival dedicated to Georgian cinema in Tokyo’s Iwanami Hall in 2018. His film Zurabi, made with the Parisian film school Ateliers Varan, won the prize for Best Georgian Documentary at the 2007 Niamori Film Festival. One of his most recent works, Twelve Lessons, received a special mention at the 2019 Tbilisi International Film Festival and the award for Best Documentary at Mediawave in 2022.


In 2021, Mrevlishvili's book The Process was also published — a collection of reflective essays about experimental processes in documentary filmmaking.


Giorgi's new documentary, National Exams, was completed in 2024.