WATERMELON
POLISH TITLE: ARBUZ
REPRESENTED BY KFF
In Georgia, in the middle of a desert, on the hottest day of summer two water-melon sellers cross paths and their competition begins.
FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND, GEORGIA
- RUNNING TIME:
- 10'
- YEAR:
- 2012
- DIRECTING:
- Tato Kotetishvili
- SCRIPT:
- Tato Kotetishvili
- DOP:
- Tato Kotetishvili
- EDITOR:
- Tato Kotetishvili
- MUSIC:
- Orera Zespul
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Tato Kotetishvili »
born in Georgia in 1987. Student of the Cinematography Department at the Film School in Łódź. He has worked as a cameraman on numerous students’ films. He is also a director and photographer; his photos have been exhibited, among others, in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Russia.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 28th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2012 (screening)
- 5th LISFF, Slovenia, 2013 (screening)
- 12th St. Petersburg International Festival of Debut and Student Films Beginning, Russia, 2013 (screening)
- 20th Court c'est Court Film Festival, France, 2013 (screening)
- Friss Hus Budapest Short Film Festival, Hungary, 2014 (screening)
- 6th Go Short International Short Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2014 (screening)
- Food Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2014 (screening)
- Culy Food Festival, The Netherlands, 2015 (screening)
- Northern Film Festival 2015, The Netherlands, 2015 (screening)
- 21st Cucalorus Film Festival, USA, 2015 (screening)
- Semana del Cortometraje de la Comunidad de Madrid, Spain, 2016 (screening)
- Barwon Heads Film Society Film Festival 2016, Australia, 2016 (screening)
- Festival Fenetres sur Courts 2017, France, 2017 (screening)
- Film Festival Film Night at the Castle 2018, Slovakia, 2018 (screening)
- Maremetraggio Film Festival 2013, Italy, 2012 (competition)
- San Geo Verona Video Film Festival, Italy, 2012 (competition)
- Batumi International Art-House Film Festival, Georgia, 2012 (Best Short Film)
- Cyprus International Short Film Festival, Greece, 2012 (competition)
- Tbilisi International Film Festival, Georgia, 2012 (Paradżanov Award for the Best Short Film)
- Cinemaiubit Student Film Festival, Romania, 2012 (Jury Special Prize)
- 4th Flicks Student Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2013 (competition)
- 20th Febiofest International Film Festival, Slovakia, 2013 (competition)
- 44th Nashville Film Festival, USA, 2013 (competition)
- 7th River Film Festival, Italy, 2013 (competition)
- 16th Brooklyn Film Festival, USA, 2013 (competition)
- 16th Ismailia International Film Festival, Egypt , 2013 (competition)
- 18th Festival Culture Giovani, Italy, 2013 (competition)
- 19th International Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece, 2013 (competition)
- 54th Brno Short Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2013 (Best Film under 10 minutes)
- FILMETS Badalona Film Festival 2013, Spain, 2013 (competition)
- 15th International Film Festival Soria, Spain, 2013 (competition)
- 28th Brest European Short Film Festival, France, 2013 (General Council of Finistère Award for the First or a School Film)
- 2013 Sleepwalkers International Film Festival, Estonia, 2013 (competition)
- 25th International Istanbul Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2013 (competition)
- 26th Filmfest Dresden, Germany, 2014 (competition)
- 2nd Athens International Culinary Film Festival, Greece, 2015 (competition)